F 5 Ljungbyhed

Air Force Wing
emblem=
officialname=Kungliga Krigsflygskolan
locatedin=Ljungbyhed,
Klippan Municipality
founded=1926
closed=1996
wingcommander=S. A. Flory (1926-1932)
Åge Lundström (1932-1943)
I Nygren (1943-1952)
Knut Lindahl (1952-1957)
Å Rehnberg (1957-1965)
Bengt Bellander (1965-1971)
Åke Lönnberg (1971-1975)
P Widmark (1975-)
typesofaircraft=Trainer
maintypes=Ö 2, Ö 4, Sk 1, Sk 3,
Sk 5, Sk 6, Sk 8, Sk 9,
Sk 10, Sk 11, Sk 12,
Sk 14, Sk 15, Sk 16,
Sk 25, Sk 50, SK 60,
SK 61, J 28B, J 28C
othertypes=
other=

F 5 Ljungbyhed, Kungliga Krigsflygskolan, "Royal Air Force Flight Academy", or simply "F 5", is a former Swedish Air Force training wing with the main base located in Ljungbyhed in southern Sweden.

History of the airbase

The moor at Ljungby was adopted for military use in 1658 by the Scanian Hussar Regiment as a training ground. In 1910, the first flights were commenced from the grounds.

Enoch Thulin set up a public flying school on June 16 1915.

In 1926, the newly formed Swedish Air Force set up their flying school at Ljungbyhed.

Between 1983 and 1996 the Air Force school of meteorology was also located at Ljungbyhed.

In 1996, F 5 Ljungbyhed was decommissioned and the pilot training was taken over by F 10 Ängelholm

Currently, Lund University School of Aviation has commercial flying training at Ljungbyhed Airport (ICAO: ESTL).

References

[http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/text/fv26-.html1 Webpage listing all air force squadrons in Sweden] (in Swedish)

[http://www.lusa.lu.se Lund University School of Aviation]

[http://www.f5ljungbyhed.se/ Current use of the airbase grounds] (in Swedish)

See also

* Swedish Armed Forces
* Swedish Air Force
* List of military aircraft of Sweden