View of the former air base Hopsten near the homonymous place in North Rhine-Westphalia. The military airport for the German Air Force was opened in 1938. The Jagdgeschwader 72 "Westfalen" and the F-4F flight training center for the McDonnell F-4 "Phantom II" were stationed there until the operation was shut down in 2006. Currently, the start and runway is being used as storage space for the truck plane of the vehicle plant Krone