Before and during WW2 Rangsdorf housed the Bücker aircraft factory. After 1945 the facilities were taken over by Russian forces. It was abandoned after the Russian forces withdrew from Germany in the early nineties. The area is slated to become a housing area.

YoM 1938. A Bücker PR photo.

'The Student flies'. This is the second prototype of the Bü 180, which was intended as a cheap civilian training aircraft. The V1, D-ELIO, first flew in November 1937. Only some 25 Students were built. Photo most probably taken at the Bücker works at Rangsdorf.

Most probably the start of the massive 1938 German Air Rally. A reported 390 aircraft took part. In the left row are Fw 44 aircraft including D-EOQA and D-EGDU, third, which registration is listed as a Bü 131. Rangsdorf, south of Berlin, was opened as a sport airfield for the 1936 Olympics. The Bücker plant was located here. Lufthansa moved its flights from Tempelhof to Rangsdorf during WWII.