Ingolstadt Manching Airport

Ingolstadt Manching Airfield

*Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching*
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'
Website	etsi-airport.de
Runways

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.

Usage[edit]

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 the support of Luftwaffe aircraft.^[2]

Airlines and destinations[edit]

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]}