Rangsdorf was used as helicopter maintenance site and also used for aircraft destruction. Lots of wrecks & relics could be found here like this former Rangsdorf gateguard 88 RED.
w/o 6 september 2000. The Hercules, crashed while it was dumping water over a forest fire in southeastern France.
The aircraft had just carried out a first passage; on the second one it flew into a hill killing all six onboard.