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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.

Ingolstadt Manching Airfield Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching
IATA: IGS ICAO: ETSI
Summary
Serves	Ingolstadt, Germany
Location	Manching
Elevation AMSL	1,202 ft / 366 m
Coordinates	N48° 42.9' E011° 32.1'
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 2,940 9,645

Usage

The airfield is home to the Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft.. The first flights of the Tornado and Eurofighter prototypes took place here. The F104 and the F4 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 TAL aborts.^{[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 the support of 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

• Transport in Germany
• List of airports in Germany

References

External links

Media related to Ingolstadt Manching Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for IGS at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for ETSI at Great Circle Mapper.
• Current weather for ETSI at NOAA/NWS

На других языках

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[de] Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching

Der Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching ist ein Militärflugplatz mit ziviler Mitnutzung. Er liegt zwischen den Gemeinden Manching und Ernsgaden im oberbayerischen Landkreis Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, acht Kilometer südöstlich von Ingolstadt.

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- [en] Ingolstadt Manching Airport

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