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'
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

The airfield is home to the Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft. Cassidian, the defence and security subsidiary of EADS, also has its headquarters here. 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]}

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]}