The lab was discovered in 1997 by Kai Steffen, after having read the memoirs of Henrich Focke, the former graduate student searched for the missing wind tunnel, contacting the Focke family and finding the laboratory in a backyard shed near the main station of Bremen.
The wind tunnel is a closed recirculating wind tunnel for subsonic speed range, produces wind speeds up to 16 m per second and is still fully functional.