 It has a spartan layout, unimproved pads, if any, and an alert strip feeding directly onto the runway threshold.In the mid-1950s up to 75 Ilyushin Il-28 (Beagle) tactical bombers were based at Marienkhof.There was a significant drawdown in forces by 1962, by which aircraft were rarely observed at the airfield except for the occasional Il-28, indicating Marienkhof became a reserve airfield.