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Neuburg Air Base sits on the Danube some 20 km west-southwest of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, and is home to Jagdgeschwader 74, the Luftwaffe fighter wing that has flown the Eurofighter Typhoon from the field since 2006. For a simulator pilot it offers a single long hard-surface runway with ILS guidance and a fast-jet operating environment typical of a modern European air defence base.
Neuburg Air Base, known locally as Fliegerhorst Neuburg, is a German Air Force installation in the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district of Bavaria. It is the home base of Jagdgeschwader 74, tasked with air defence of southern Germany, and has operated Eurofighter Typhoons since 2006. Despite being the smallest fighter base in the Bundeswehr, it remains a fully active front-line station, which makes it an interesting destination for simulator pilots wanting to fly into a working military airfield rather than a civil aerodrome.
The airfield lies on the River Danube, approximately 20 km west-southwest of Ingolstadt, within the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district of Bavaria. As an active fighter base it sits within military-controlled airspace served by its own radar and tower units, coordinated with Munich area control.
Neuburg has a single physical runway, 09/27, of hard surface construction and lit, measuring approximately 8,137 ft (2,480 m) on the 09 threshold and 8,204 ft (2,500 m) on the 27 threshold. An ILS is provided for runway 27.
The field is served by Donau Radar on 34.4 MHz and 123.3 MHz, and Donau Tower on 24.04 MHz and 122.1 MHz, with Munich providing area control on 136.525 MHz. Runway 27 is equipped with an ILS.
Military aviation at Neuburg dates back to 1912, when an aircraft first landed on the town's drill square. Construction of the airfield proper began in 1935, and in 1937 the site was designated an Aviation Weapons School, operating Dornier Do 23, Focke-Wulf Fw 56 and Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Towards the end of the Second World War the base also served as a construction site for the jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262, and on 19 March 1945 the jet plant was bombed by USAAF B-24 Liberators of the 392d Bombardment Group. After the war the airfield passed to American control under the Allied code designation R-60. In June 2023 Neuburg took part in Air Defender 23, described as the largest air exercise since NATO's formation.
Neuburg remains an active German Air Force base, home to Jagdgeschwader 74, which has flown the Eurofighter Typhoon from the airfield since 2006 in the air defence role for southern Germany. It continues to be used for major multinational exercises, having hosted elements of Air Defender 23 in June 2023.
