Ingolstadt Manching Airport

Ingolstadt Manching Airfield, or Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching in German, is a military airbase with civil usage located in Manching near Ingolstadt, Germany.

WWW flugplatz-ingolstadt.de

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.
Cassidian, the defence and security subsidiary of EADS, also had its headquarters here. Manching is now a key center for Airbus' military air systems activity in Germany, including supporting Luftwaffe aircraft.

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.