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Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport receives historic aircraft from Aerodata AG

The twin-engine aircraft with STOL capabilites of type L410 has been familiar at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport at least since the last major rescue exercise on 18 March 2022. However, the aircraft L410 UVP-T has gone through important stages in its history.

Its career began in the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) Transport Pilot Training Squadron at the Air Force Officers' School of the National People's Army in Kamenz. After Germanys reunification, the aircraft was used first by the Air Transport Squadron 65 and then by the VIP Squadron of the Federal Ministry of Defence. In 1993, the Estonian government took over the L410 and it was subsequently used by the Estonian Police and Border Guard Air Service.
In 2007, LET Aircraft Industries based in Kunovice/Czech Republic, converted the L410 into a maritime surveillance aircraft and equipped it with various sensors. Thereafter, the aircraft was redelivered to the Estonian Police and Border Guard Service and was used for maritime and land border surveillance as well as oil spill detection on the Baltic Sea until early 2018. As part of a fleet renewal, the aircraft was decommissioned in 2018 and offered for sale.
In August 2018, Aerodata AG purchased the aircraft from the Estonian Police and Border Guard Service for the purpose of further use of the integrated sensors. After removing the mission equipment and sensors from the aircraft, Aerodata finally handed over the L410 to the airport fire brigade at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport for training purposes.

The CEO of Aerodata AG, Hans Stahl, is happy about the further use of the Let 410: "After the aircraft can no longer be used economically for reasons of age, we have found a really sensible future user with our local airport fire brigade."

Airport Managing Director Michael Schwarz is delighted with the aircraft: "I would like to thank Aerodata AG very much. The aircraft will significantly improve the quality of our in-house training sessions." The L410 has already completed its first exercise at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport, in which the rescue of people, infected by COVID-19, from the crashed aircraft was trained.
The exercise was a complete success, especially due to the involvement of the aircraft.