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Pattonville Airfield (EDTQ) is a small general aviation and gliding field on the northern edge of Stuttgart, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, just off the road between Kornwestheim and Remseck-Aldingen. Built originally by the German Wehrmacht and later operated as a US Army airfield under the name Ludwigsburg Army Airfield, it is now home to several flying clubs and offers a distinctive, noise-abatement-driven approach procedure that makes it a genuinely interesting field for the visiting VFR pilot.
Pattonville is a small civilian airfield lying within the northern municipal boundary of Stuttgart, close to the settlement of Pattonville itself. It began life as a military airfield, built by the German Wehrmacht and subsequently taken over by the US Army, before passing into use by local flying clubs after the Second World War. Today it functions purely as a general aviation and gliding field, and its unusual mandatory approach and departure corridors, introduced to reduce noise over nearby housing, give it a distinctive character among German GA airfields.
The airfield sits just north of Stuttgart, within the city's northern municipal boundary, near the settlement of Pattonville and close to Remseck am Neckar. It lies alongside the road linking Kornwestheim and Remseck-Aldingen. Traffic in the area is coordinated through Langen Information.
Pattonville has two physical runways aligned 10/28. The main runway, 10/28, is 2179 ft long, has a hard surface and is lit. A parallel grass runway, 10R/28L, is 2682 ft long. There is no ILS at the field.
Pilots should contact Pattonville Radio, an A/G information station, on 124.61 MHz. Regional flight information is provided by Langen Information (AFIS) on 128.95 MHz. There is no ILS or other instrument approach published for the field.
Pattonville cannot be flown to using a conventional traffic pattern as is customary at most German airfields. Because of noise complaints from local residents, the airfield instead uses dedicated arrival and departure corridors flown via mandatory reporting points, designed to keep aircraft clear of populated areas. The final approach itself features a distinctive 20 degree offset just before the runway, adding a further point of care for pilots unfamiliar with the field.
The airfield lies beside the road connecting the towns of Kornwestheim and Remseck-Aldingen, within the northern edge of Stuttgart near the Pattonville settlement, and these features offer useful visual references when routing towards the field's mandatory reporting points.
The airfield was originally constructed by the German Wehrmacht before being taken over by the US Army, under whom it was known as Ludwigsburg Army Airfield, and it served exclusively military purposes for many years. After the Second World War, local flying clubs gained access to the field's roughly 700-metre asphalt runway for private flying, marking its transition to civilian general aviation use.
Pattonville remains primarily a general aviation and gliding airfield, used by members of several flying clubs based there, including facilities for aspiring pilots to train towards a license. Its noise-sensitive surroundings have shaped its operating procedures, with mandatory corridors and reporting points replacing a standard visual circuit.
