Flying politicians and military troops, evacuating wounded soldiers and providing air-to-air refuelling – the Flight Service of the German Ministry of Defence is widely tasked, as Dr Stefan Petersen discovers.
Flugbereitschaft
When the German president, the chancellor and her ministers or other elected officials go on business trips they require special aircraft. With VIP interiors, black, red and gold fuselage cheatline and ‘Bundesrepublik Deutschland’ titles, the ‘White Fleet’ of the Flugbereitschaft des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung (Flight Service of the German Ministry of Defence) stands ready to transport them.