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Brumowski Air Base is a military airfield near Tulln an der Donau in Lower Austria, some 30 km northwest of Vienna, and serves as a principal base of the Austrian Air Force. Now formally renamed Leopold Figl Air Base - General Pabisch Air Base, it combines a hard-surfaced main runway with a network of grass strips used by fixed-wing and rotary types, and it offers the simulator pilot a look at a working Austrian military station rather than a civilian field.
Brumowski Air Base, at Tulln an der Donau in Lower Austria, is a long-established Austrian Air Force station rather than a civil aerodrome. It has recently been given the additional formal title Leopold Figl Air Base - General Pabisch Air Base, honouring two figures from the post-war history of the Austrian Armed Forces, though the base is still widely known by its earlier name. For a simulator pilot it is an interesting military field to explore, with a mix of a paved main runway and several grass strips supporting fixed-wing trainers and a substantial helicopter presence.
The base lies close to the town of Tulln an der Donau, roughly east-southeast of the town itself and about 30 km northwest of Vienna, placing it well within the wider Vienna terminal area of Austria. As an active military installation, access is restricted and any flight to or from the field requires prior permission.
The field has a main hard-surfaced runway 08/26, 4618 ft long and lit. Alongside it runs a parallel grass runway, designated 08R/26L, of 2931 ft (08R) and 2962 ft (26L), also lit. A further grass runway 13/31 measures 2455 ft in each direction and is lit. There is also a grass runway aligned 05/23, with a declared length of 2949 ft from the 05 threshold and 1932 ft from the 23 threshold, also lit. There is no ILS at the field.
No civil communications frequencies are published for the base, consistent with its status as a military airfield where radio procedures are handled through military channels rather than standard civil ATC frequencies.
Construction of the airfield began in June 1938 under the German Luftwaffe, and the first military personnel arrived on 1 October 1939, making it one of the longer-established military airfields in the region. After the Second World War the base re-equipped in the mid-1950s, with the first Austrian aircraft arriving in late 1955 in the form of Yakovlev Yak-11 and Yak-18 trainers donated by the Soviet Union, together with Agusta Bell AB47G2 helicopters. The station was named Fliegerhorst Brumowski in 1967, after the First World War fighter pilot Captain Godwin Brumowski. In more recent years the Military Historical Monuments Commission reviewed the naming in light of historical concerns about Brumowski, and the base has since been given the additional formal title Leopold Figl Air Base - General Pabisch Air Base, honouring Leopold Figl and General Othmar Pabisch, the latter a helicopter squadron commander and later Chief of Staff of the Air Division who served at Langenlebarn earlier in his career.
The base functions as an active Austrian Air Force station and headquarters element of the Luftstreitkräfte, also housing the Bundesfachschule für Flugtechnik (Federal School for Aeronautical Engineering) and Fliegerwerft 1, the unit responsible for aircraft overhaul and maintenance. Units based there have included the Pilatus PC-6 B2H2 Turbo Porter of the 4th Air Squadron, Flight Regiment 1, Sikorsky S-70A-42 Black Hawk and Agusta Bell AB206A Jet Ranger helicopters of Flight Regiment 1's helicopter squadrons, and Diamond DA40NG trainers. The ÖAMTC's Christophorus air rescue service also operates an Airbus Helicopters H135 from the field. As a military installation, prior permission is required for any civilian flight to or from the base.