On May 5, Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over command of air support from Colonel Georg Klecatsky to Brigadier Wolfgang Luttenberger. The military ceremony took place in the presence of Brigadier Gerfried Promberger (Head of Directorate 2 – Air Force) and other guests of honor.
“I would like to thank Colonel Klecatsky for his prudent leadership and excellent command. Important measures were taken, particularly in the area of civil protection. I wish Brigadier Luttenberger all the best and every success in his new role! I am sure that the air support of the Austrian Armed Forces will continue to ensure the safety of our population. Above all, he will be able to apply the knowledge he has acquired over many years in a wide variety of training courses,” said Defense Minister Tanner.
In his speech, the new commander, Brigadier Luttenberger, emphasized the association’s good reputation at home and abroad for its professional performance of tasks. For the future, he called for four characteristics to be maintained: “Always ready for action, future-oriented, exemplary and professional.” In his speech, Brigadier Promberger thanked Colonel Klecatsky for his prudent leadership of the air support unit and cited as an example example the successful fight against the forest fire in Hirschwang an der Rax last year. last year. The new commander, Brigadier Luttenberger, brings to this task his flying experience from international missions and the expertise he has gained from his assignments in the air force. Promberger knows that “the command that carries out the Armed Forces’ transport and aerial reconnaissance flights is in good hands”.
Brigadier Luttenberger was most recently Deputy Head of the Air Staff of the Armed Forces Command, is a helicopter pilot, completed the General Staff Course at the National Defense Academy in Vienna and later the US Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. Luttenberger was deployed abroad several times in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 57-year-old is married and has a daughter. From Vogler Air Base in Hörsching, the Air Support Command coordinates all transport and aerial reconnaissance flights of the Austrian Armed Forces. The Hercules aircraft of the air transport squadron and the two squadrons of Agusta Bell 212 transport helicopters are managed directly by the command. The Black Hawk transport helicopters in Langenlebarn and the Alouette III helicopters in Aigen im Ennstal are also subordinate to the Air Support Command.
