Main Gate of RAF Wahn, around 1954

The main gate of RAF Wahn in West Germany, one of the airfields operated by the RAF during their occupation of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Cold War.

Wahn had been a Luftwaffe airfield during the Second World War, until it was occupied by the RAF. During the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, three Mosquito squadrons and one Spitfire squadron of the British Air Forces of Occupation were based there, concentrated to free up other airfields for the transport aircraft to fly supplies into the besieged city. The RAF left Wahn in 1957. It is now Flughafen Köln/Bonn 'Konrad Adenauer', an international civilian airport.