RAF Gatow Old Boy's Association

Royal Air Force Station Gatow built up in August 1983. The landing strip was initially developed in 1934 and 1935 by the Luftwaffe as a staff and specialized school, Luftkriegsschule 2 Berlin-Gatow, in the impersonation of the Royal Air Force College at RAF Cranwell. RAF Gatow is known for the greater part of its operational life as Royal Air Force Station Gatow, or all the more usually RAF Gatow, this previous British Royal Air Force runway (military airbase) is in the area of Gatow in south-western Berlin, west of the Havel waterway, in the precinct of Spandau. It was the home for the main known operational utilization of flying water crafts in focal Europe and was later utilized for photographic surveillance missions by de Havilland Chipmunks over East Germany. a part of the previous airfield is now referred to as standard Steinhoff-Kaserne and is home to the Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr, the German Airforce Museum.Additionally on the site of the previous Royal Air Force station, however not some portion of General Steinhoff-Kaserne, is a school, the Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium, and in addition houses for government workers of the Federal Republic of Germany. This a player in the previous runway has since 2003 been a piece of the area of Berlin-Kladow. The runway was initially developed in 1934 and 1935 by the Luftwaffe as a staff and specialized school, Luftkriegsschule 2 Berlin-Gatow, in the impersonation of the Royal Air Force College at RAF Cranwell. U.S. Armed force Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lucius D. Dirt at RAF Gatow amid the Potsdam Conference in 1945.The first arriving by a Royal Air Force airship was by Avro Anson serial number PW698 on 2 July 1945 at 11.55 hours. to begin with, Gatow becomes called Intermediate touchdown area No. 19, however on 19 August 1945 changed into renamed Royal Air force Station Gatow, or RAF Gatow for short. RAF Gatow changed into also used as a civilian airport for a constrained time. RAF Gatow was additionally utilized as a non-military personnel airplane terminal temporarily. In 1946, British European Airways (BEA) introduced an RAF Northolt – Hamburg – Gatow planned administration at a recurrence of six flights a week, utilizing Douglas DC-3 ("Pionair" in BEA phrasing) and Vickers VC.1 Viking cylinder engined airship. alongside the Royal Air force and numerous British civil aviation organizations, the USA Air pressure, the Royal Australian Air pressure (RAAF), the Royal Canadian Air pressure (RCAF), the Royal New Zealand Air pressure (RNZAF) and the South African Air pressure all flew elements into RAF Gatow throughout the Airlift. On 20 June 1980, the Royal Australian Air pressure provided a Douglas Dakota to RAF Gatow in commemoration of its function. Its aircrew covered Air Marshal David Evans, an Australian airlift veteran. As only British, French and American aircraft had been allowed underneath international regulation to fly within the Allied Air Corridors, the Dakota obtained the RAF serial variety ZD215. The Dakota is still at Gatow, in the German Air pressure barracks. also at the site of the former RAF station, but now not part of trendy-Steinhoff Kaserne, is a faculty, the Hans-Carossa-health club, and houses for authorities employees of the Federal Republic of Germany. given that 2003, this has been a part of the district of Berlin-Kladow.​