With a very fast and low overflight plus a nice sound after take off C-160D 50+79 of LTG 63 left Hohn just after 10.00h local for the last time on 7.12. en route to Zweibrücken. Crew ferry was 50+83 which left one hour earlier and returned in the afternoon.
One week before 50+51 was written from use and this is leaving 50+36, 50+55, 50+83 and 50+88 as the only active Transalls in German service.
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Today it was announced that on 14.12. the last Transall flights will happen. Presumably two or three C-160D will take off at 11.00h (weather permitting) with one aircraft and the formation in command of Kommodore Oberst Kleinbauer.
One day later the wing will disband during a closing-down ceremony. The base is closed for this (NOTAMs) from 11.30-13.45h.
On December 14th, 2021 the German Air Force performed it’s last two C-160D Transall flights of all times with 50+55 flying from 10.00 h local for more than an hour and 50+36 as the oldest one in service landing just after 13.00h as GAF601 under the command of Oberst Markus Kleinbauer.
The first production line C-160D was delivered on August 8th, 1968 to LTG 63 at Hohn in the shape of 50+09.
Flugzeugführerschule „S“ at Wunstorf got the first aircraft on May 22nd, 1969 with 50+17. The training unit was remaned as LTG 62 on October 1st, 1978 and flew the C-160D until July 2015.
The first Transall for LTG 61 at Penzing (Landsberg/Lech), tactical number 50+50, arrived on June 16th, 1970 and the wing flew the type until December 2017.
LTG 63 operated this aircraft for more than 53 years and four months and it is unclear if another German Bundeswehr aircraft or helicopter will ever reach this number or if another unit will fly an aircraft for this long period.
