Ingolstadt Manching Airport
Airport in Manching
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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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| Serves | Ingolstadt, Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Manching | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,202 ft (366 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°42.9′N 11°32.1′E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | etsi-airport.de | ||||||||||||||
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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]
