F 11 Nyköping

Air Force Wing
emblem=
officialname=Kungliga Södermanlands Flygflottilj
locatedin=Nyköping,
Nyköping Municipality
founded=1941
closed=1980
wingcommander=B Schyberg (1941-1945)
A Henricson (1945-1949)
Greger Falk (1949-1951)
H Nordström (1951-1959)
Nils Personne (1959-1961)
B-G Lundgren (1961-1962)
C-E Abramson (1962-1966)
typesofaircraft=Reconnaissance
maintypes=B 3, J 9, S 16, S 18, J 28, S 29, S 31, S 32, S 35
othertypes=
other=

F 11 Nyköping, Södermanlands Flygflottilj, "Södermanland Air Force Wing", or simply "F 11", is a former Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located in south-east Sweden.

History of the airbase

The wing was set up outside Nyköping in 1940 as a long range reconnaissance wing wit two squadrons of S 16B. After the war, the aircraft were replaced with J 9 from F 8 Barkarby and an additional squadron of B 3 from F 1 Hässlö.

In 1946 two additional squadrons of S 18 were added.

In 1948 F 11 became the sole Swedish operator of three squadrons of S 31 when the B 3 and J 9 became obsolete.

In 1953 J 28 jet fighters were used for one year to train pilots for the introduction of the S 29 in 1954.

The S 18 squadrons were replaced by the S 32 in 1958 and the S 29s by J 35s in 1964. These four squadrons served until the decommissioning of the wing in 1980.

Current use

The airfield was used as a cargo airport from 1984 and from 1997 serves as Stockholm-Skavsta Airport Airport codes|NYO|ESKN for international flights.

References

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

See also

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