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Ingolstadt Manching Airport (ETSI) is a military airbase with civil usage near Manching, close to Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany. It is a major test and evaluation centre for German military aviation, having hosted the first flights of the Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter, and today combines Luftwaffe and Airbus Defence and Space activity with limited civil charter operations.
Ingolstadt Manching Airfield, known in German as Fliegerhorst Ingolstadt/Manching, is a large military airbase with civil usage situated at Manching near Ingolstadt in Bavaria. It is home to the Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft and remains a key site for Airbus' military air systems activity in Germany, making it a distinctive and historically rich destination for a simulator pilot interested in German military test flying.
The airfield lies at Manching, immediately south of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany, at coordinates 48.7156N, 11.5337E. It operates with its own tower, radar and information services, indicating that arriving traffic should expect to work with controlled or information airspace in the vicinity rather than uncontrolled airspace.
Ingolstadt Manching has two parallel hard-surfaced runways. The longer pair, 06R/24L, is 9619 feet long, lit, and equipped with ILS on the 24L approach. The shorter parallel runway, 06L/24R, is 7987 to 7988 feet long and also lit. Field elevation is 1194 feet.
Pilots can expect to work Langen Information on AFIS at 120.65 MHz, with Ingo ATIS available on 118.865 MHz. Ingo Radar provides service on 120.605 MHz and 125.58 MHz, with a further radar frequency of 123.3 MHz available on request. Ingo Tower (Turm) operates on 122.1 MHz and 125.255 MHz. Frankfurt 2 VOLMET is available on 135.78 MHz. The field is equipped with ILS on runway 24L.
The airbase has a long-standing role in German military flight testing. The first flights of both the Panavia Tornado and the Eurofighter prototypes took place at Manching, and the F-104G Starfighter and F-4 Phantom II were flown here for weapons systems testing through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. During the Space Shuttle programme the airfield was considered as a potential Transoceanic Abort Landing site. Cassidian, the defence and security subsidiary of EADS and predecessor of Airbus Defence and Space, had its headquarters here, and Manching continues as a key centre for Airbus' military air systems work in Germany, supporting Luftwaffe aircraft.
The airfield remains a military installation with civil usage. Private Wings operates business on-demand charters and seasonal scheduled leisure flights from the field across Europe, and Ingolstadt Manching also receives frequent charter flights from Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport carrying Volkswagen Group personnel travelling between the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg and its Audi subsidiary in Ingolstadt.
