Berlin – Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow – MAN 630 L2A Towerwagen mit Flugsicherungsanlage FSA 70 01
Image by Daniel Mennerich
During the cold war the military doctrine of NATO also intended the company of substitute airfields. In addition 25 sections of the motorway had been prepared only in West Germany between 1966 and 1989 as land roads. There were not parties beaconing-, radar or distant registration facilities on the so-called emergency landing fields, so that they had to be carried along by the troop.
The squadrons of the Bundesluftwaffe were equipped by mobile air traffic control trains which brought verlastete air traffic control arrangement 70 (FSA-70) to the application for MAN 630 trucks. FSA-70 passed of the components controlling tower (Tower), UHF-direction finder, PAR final flight radar, airfield runway beacon TACAN (e.g., IN / TRN-26), mark fire equipment and electricity supply (approx. 30 kVA).
