Kommandeure:

• Oberst Hans Poetsch, 1.8.37 - 31.3.39
• Obstlt Alfred Traeger, 1.4.39 - 5.3.41
• Obstlt Buchner(?), 6.3.41 - 2.42
• Oberst Walter Fruhner, 3.42 - 11.2.45
• Maj Heinz Roeber, 12.2.45 - 16.3.45

Formed 1.8.37 in Crailsheim as FFS B Crailsheim (from Fliegerübungsstelle Schleissheim). On 1.11.38 became FFS A/B Crailsheim, and from 1.4.39 Schule/FAR.43, attached to Flieger-Ausbildungs-Regiment 43.

On 1.10.41 redesignated Flugzeugführerschule A/B 43 (FFS A/B 43).

In 10.43 absorbed FFS A/B 124 (as II./43), and became Flugzeugführer-Doppelschule A 43 (FFDS A 43).

On 17.12.44 redesignated Flugzeugführerschule A 43.

Disbanded 16.4.45, and was ordered to Assens (to be incorporated into the 20. and 21. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division).

Used the following aircraft: Ar 66, Ar 96, Bü 131, Bü 181, Ca 164, Ca 309, Fiat L3, Fw 44, Fw 58, He 51, He 59, He 72, Ju 52, Kl 35, NA-64, Saiman 200, Saiman 202, SG 38 and W.34

Bases:

1.8.37 - 10.39	Crailsheim
10.39 - 25.9.40	Prossnitz*
25.9.40 - 16.4.45	Crailsheim**

* satellite airfields: Landau and Wischau

** satellite airfields: Nürnberg, Böblingen, Oberscheckenbach, Plauen, Nellingen, Deinigen, Diedenhofen, Amberg-Schafhof, Kirchenlaibach, Mannheim, Trier-Euren, Sandweiler (Luxembourg) and Weiltingen

© 1997-2003 Michael Holm