During the visit to the MDSG at Rothenburg in 1994, the author was informed that numerous MiG-21s were also still at Drewitz airfield. After the Material-Depot-Service-Gesellschaft (MDSG) had again granted permission to visit, these aircraft and large numbers of helicopters stored there could be inspected in January 1995 in icy temperatures and light snowfall.
The vast majority of the stored MiG-21s had already been scrapped by then. Only a few aircraft remained that were reserved for display purposes ...
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Of the MiG-23BNs of fighter-bomber wing JBG-37 based at Drewitz, only one was still on site.
Dozens of Mi-8s stood on the flightline, ...
... whose markings indicated further use with the Bundeswehr.
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The stored Mi-2s, too, ...
... were flown by the Bundeswehr for some time.
View across the snow-covered airfield to the hardened control tower.
