Berlin Wall Airlift Airfields — Outer Berlin

RAF Gatow in the British sector was one of the Berlin Airlift’s three airfields, handling the British share of the lift while Sunderland flying boats landed on the nearby Havel. Throughout the Cold War it remained the Royal Air Force’s Berlin station, its radar watching over the air corridors. Handed to the Bundeswehr when the British left in 1994, it is now the Military History Museum Berlin-Gatow (Luftwaffenmuseum), with more than 100 aircraft, air-defence systems and Cold War exhibits in the historic hangars and on the former airfield. Entry is free.