In 1912, the German Army's military flight operations started at Lechfeld, but were forbidden after the First World War.

On May 22, 1943, at Lechfeld, Adolf Galland made his first flight in the Messerschmitt Me 262, a highly advanced twin engine jet fighter.

"[1] In April 1944 a special Luftwaffe service test unit began training of operational pilots on the Me 262A.

American Army units moved into the Lagerlechfeld area in early May 1945 during the Western Allied invasion of Germany and seized the airfield with little or no opposition.

Oberstleutnant Siegfried Barth, commander of the unit at the time, was transferred for the incident but later, after a number of investigations and complaints, had to be reinstated.

As a consequence, 32 Fighter Bomber Wing will be disbanded and 14 Student Company of the German Armed Forces Command Support School, also stationed at the air base, will be reduced to one of the elements of the German Armed Forces Command Support School.