page_title: Wunstorf Air Base
section_title: Use by German Air Force
hierarchical_section_title: Wunstorf Air Base / Use by German Air Force
caption_attribution_description: A Luftwaffe (German Air Force) Transall C-160D transport aircraft (registration 50+38) of Lufttransportgeschwader 62 (LTG 62) (Transport Wing 62) based at Wunstorf, Lower Saxony (Germany), in flight on 15 June 1983.
context_page_description: Wunstorf Air Base is a German Air Force military airfield, located 6 km south-southwest of Neustadt am Rübenberge or 4 km north-northwest of Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wunstorf Air Base is the home to Air Transport Wing 62, a unit operating all German Airbus A400M Atlas.
context_section_description: German Air Force first stationed Nord Noratlas which by 1971 were replaced by C-160D Transall; those were disbanded from the local LTG62 in July 2015, now focussing on accepting and integrating Airbus A400M Atlas.
  Flight training for decades was executed using Dornier Do 28.
caption: A German Air Force Transall C-160D transport aircraft (s/n 50+38) of Air Transport Wing 62 (LTG 62) based at Wunstorf Air Base, in flight on 15 June 1983
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