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Kasumigaura Air Field

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The U.S. military took over the base in 1945 and handed it over to the Japanese defense ministry in 1953. Since then it has been used as a supply depot and as a training base for helicopter pilots and mechanics, with approximately 2,000 personnel stationed on base.
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Aeronautical Technology and Training Center (海軍航空技術講習所). After the First World War Japan, which had fought with the allies, received the German
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airbase as part of its war reparations, and the hangar was installed at Kasumigaura air base. On 19 August 1929, the airship
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between 1927 and 1932, at which point the Navy ceased airship operations and dismantled its fleet.
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from France in 1922 and stationed it at Kasumigaura from 1923, alongside a Japanese-built
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Bélafi, Michael: Der Zeppelin Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 2012 pp.198-199
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stopped at Kasumigaura for several days while on its
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Kasumigaura Air Base

IATA
ICAO
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
Kasumigaura
AMSL
Coordinates
36°02′05″N 140°11′34″E / 36.03472°N 140.19278°E / 36.03472; 140.19278
RJAK is located in Japan
Runways
Direction
Sod
AIP
AIS Japan
ICAO
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
NM
Tsuchiura
Ibaraki Prefecture
Japan
Imperial Japanese Navy
airship hangar
Jüterbog
LZ-17 Graf Zeppelin
round-the-world trip
curry

Astra-Torres airship
Vickers SS-3

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