Jever Air Base RAF Jever Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) B-117
Jever, Lower Saxony in Germany
Fliegerhorst Jever in 1986
Jever Air Base Shown within Lower Saxony, Germany
Coordinates	53°32′02″N 007°53′05″E / 53.53389°N 7.88472°E / 53.53389; 7.88472
Site information
Owner	Federal Defence Forces of Germany
Operator	Luftwaffe (National Socialist), 1936–1945   Royal Air Force, 1945–1961  German Air Force (FRG), 1961–Present
Site history
Built	1936 (1936)
In use	1936-present
Airfield information
Identifiers	ICAO: ETNJ
Elevation	7 metres (23 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 10/28 2,480 metres (8,136 ft) Concrete

Jever Air Base is a former German Air Force military air base, located 4.3 km west-southwest of Schortens in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was the home of parts of the German Air Force Regiment. Military flying ceased in September 2013.

History

The airfield was originally opened in 1936 for the Luftwaffe. It was seized during World War II by the British Army in April 1945 and taken over by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was designated as Advanced Landing Ground B-117 Jever.

It was later designated RAF Jever and used by the RAF beginning in 1952 as part of the Cold War British Forces in West Germany. RAF units assigned were:

• 1952: 20 Squadron reformed with de Havilland Vampire FB.9^[1]
• 1952–1953: 112 Squadron with Vampire FB.5^[2]
• 1952–1961: 4 Squadron & 93 Squadron with Vampire FB.5 (replaced with FB.9), later Canadair Sabre F.4, later Hawker Hunter F.4 (replaced with F.6)^[3][4]
• 1955–1957: 98 Squadron & 118 Squadron with Hunter F.4^[5][6]
• 1957–1961: 2 Squadron with Supermarine Swift FR.5 and Hunter FR.10^[7]

In 1961 the base was returned to the control of the German Air Force and became a NATO Air Base.

In September 1979 NATO's Tactical Leadership Programme (TLP) moved to Jever. TLP prepares NATO allied coalition forces for worldwide tactical air operations. In March 1989 TLP subsequently relocated to Florennes Air Base in Belgium.^[8]