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Bücker airplane factory / Sovjet helicopter maintenance.

More in my journal about this place:

Urbex: Buecker airplane / Soviet helicopter baseLocated south east of Berlin are the remains of Bücker Aircraft, an old factory for small training machines and parts for fighter planes before and during WW II, later used by Soviet troops as a Helicopter maintenance base.

It was founded in the 1930s, through Carl Clemens Bücker, who was producing airplanes earlier in Sweden to avoid the restrictions of the treaty of versailles obliged to Germany after it´s defeat in 1918. 
       
The small aircrafts Bü 131 and Bü 133 were used as training machines by fascist Spain and Germany and were produced under licence for Japan and other airforces.
Bücker tried to become a producer of training aircraft for the Nazi Luftwaffe which fully succeeded für him when the