East Germany bought 24 MiG-29s (20 MiG-29As, four MiG-29UBs), which entered service in 1988–1989 in 1./JG3 ""Wladimir Komarow"" in Preschen in Brandenburg. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and reunification of Germany in October 1990, the MiG-29s and other aircraft of the East German "Air Forces of the National People's Army" were integrated into the West German Luftwaffe. Initially the 1./JG3 kept its designation. In April 1991 both 1./JG3's MiG-29 squadrons were reorganised into the MiG-29 test wing (""Erprobungsgeschwader MiG-29""), which became JG73 ""Steinhoff"" and was transferred to Laage near Rostock in June 1993.