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Oberpfaffenhofen Airport lies at Weßling in Bavaria, about 23 km southwest of Munich, and is one of Germany's few designated special and research airfields. It sits at the heart of the Airtech Campus alongside the German Aerospace Center (DLR), making it a distinctive destination for a VFR pilot interested in aerospace history and testing activity rather than routine airline traffic.
Oberpfaffenhofen (ICAO: EDMO, IATA: OBF) is a special and research airport at Weßling in the Starnberg district of Bavaria, Germany, roughly 23 km from central Munich. It is one of twelve German airports designated of federal interest, serving as a research and development field for aircraft and aerospace work as well as qualified business flights. The airfield shares its site with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and a large aerospace campus, and its long, hard runway and ILS approach make it a notable single-runway field for a simulator pilot to explore.
The airport is located at Weßling in the Starnberg district of Bavaria, within the wider Munich area of southern Germany, at an elevation of 1916 feet. Its proximity to Munich places it near the capital's airspace and traffic environment, and pilots can expect to work with Munich area control and information services when transiting to or from the field.
Oberpfaffenhofen has a single physical runway, 04/22, of hard surface and 7467 feet in length. Both directions are lit, and an ILS is available on runway 22.
Pilots can expect to work Oberpfaffenhofen Tower (Turm) on 119.555 MHz, with an airport ATIS broadcast on 126.58 MHz. Langen Information provides an AFIS-type service on 126.95 MHz, and Munich Arrival can be contacted on 120.775 MHz, with Munich Radar available on 127.95 MHz. Frankfurt VOLMET broadcasts on 135.78 MHz. An ILS is provided for runway 22.
The airfield has a long-standing aerospace heritage: during the post-Second World War Allied occupation of Germany it was designated the Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot, and it served as a maintenance depot for aircraft used during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49. It later became closely associated with Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH, which shared the airfield with the DLR, and with the broader development of German aerospace research; Dornier's successor activities continued at the site under Fairchild Dornier before the company's insolvency. The nearby German Space Operations Center at Oberpfaffenhofen played a role in West Germany's early human spaceflight involvement, helping supervise the 1983 Spacelab mission that carried the first West German astronaut, Ulf Merbold, into orbit.
Oberpfaffenhofen remains a special and research airport, described by its operator as unique in Germany for combining research, development and qualified business flight operations. It forms the centerpiece of the Airtech Campus Oberpfaffenhofen, where around 8,000 people work across the wider site and around 4,000 at the airport itself, alongside the neighbouring DLR facility and numerous aerospace companies and institutions covering the full process chain from research and development to production, flight operations and maintenance. The airport offers charter flight operations for aeroplanes and helicopters and aircraft storage and hangarage facilities, and its operator states that pilots are welcome, with pilot information provided for those planning a visit.
