Ingolstadt Manching Airport

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Ingolstadt Manching Airfield

Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching
Manching Airport.jpg
Summary
Serves Ingolstadt, Germany
Location Manching
Elevation  AMSL 1,202 ft / 366 m
Coordinates 48°42.9′N11°32.1′E / 48.7150°N 11.5350°E / 48.7150; 11.5350
Website etsi-airport.de
Ingolstadt Manching Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
06R/24L2,9409,645concrete
06L/24R2,4398,002concrete

Ingolstadt Manching Airfield, or Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching in German ( IATA : IGS, ICAO : ETSI), is a military airbase with civil usage located in Manching near Ingolstadt, Germany.

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Usage

The airfield is home to the Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft. The first flights of the Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter prototypes took place here. The F-104G Starfighter and the F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft were flown here testing weapons systems in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. During the Space Shuttle missions it was considered as a landing site for Transoceanic Abort Landings.[ citation needed ]

Cassidian, the defence and security subsidiary of EADS (now renamed Airbus Defence and Space [1] ), also had its headquarters here. Manching is now a key center for Airbus' military air systems activity in Germany, including supporting Luftwaffe aircraft. [2]

Airlines and destinations

Private Wings offers some business on-demand charters and seasonal scheduled leisure flights across Europe. Ingolstadt Manching also receives frequent charter flights from Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport transferring personnel of the Volkswagen Group between their headquarters in Wolfsburg and their subsidiary Audi in Ingolstadt.[ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cassidian Communications changes company name to Airbus DS Communications – Urgent Comms". urgentcomm.com. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  2. ↑ "Airbus in Germany". Airbus. Retrieved 2021-05-17.

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48°42′56″N11°32′02″E / 48.71556°N 11.53389°E / 48.71556; 11.53389


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