Ingolstadt / Manching Air Base
| Ingolstadt / Manching Air Base | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | ETSI |
| IATA code | IGS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 367 m (1204 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 8 km southeast of Ingolstadt |
| Street |
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1938 |
| operator | (1.) Bundeswehr WTD61 (2.) IMA |
| Runways | |
| 07R / 25L | 2940 m × 60 m concrete |
| 07L / 25R | 2439 m × 30 m concrete |
The Ingolstadt / Manching Air Base is a military airfield with civil joint use. It is located between the communities of Manching and Ernsgaden in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , eight kilometers south-east of Ingolstadt .
Military use
The operator of the airfield is the Bundeswehr Service Center Ingolstadt. The Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Luftfahrzeuge ( WTD 61 ) uses this airfield as the main consumer. In the Airbus Defense and Space area , all European AWACS aircraft, the German Transall C-160 , the German Lockheed P-3 Orion and the German Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon are overhauled and flown in for NATO . The tornado was made here in parts and the German tornado was finished. Airbus builds the central fuselage section for all Eurofighter variants and finishes the German Eurofighters.
Civil use
The civil part is classified as a commercial airport and this is operated by the joint user Ingolstadt-Manching Airport GmbH (IMA) . It mainly handles daily shuttle flights as well as factory traffic for international automotive groups. In 2006 around 62,000 passengers were handled in Ingolstadt. Nine private Wings aircraft are permanently stationed . In May 2007 a new terminal building for civil aviation was opened. However, it only includes a counter and a small waiting hall and is used almost exclusively by Audi business travelers. There are connections to Braunschweig, Győr and Brussels.
The Military Aircraft division of Airbus Defense and Space (a division of the Airbus Group ) carries out flight tests here (with the Eurofighter Typhoon and Tornado, among others ) and at the beginning of 2008 moved all of its military aircraft development here. Airbus operates here in collaboration with the Messerschmitt Foundation , the Museum of Flight Messerschmitt .
In the summer of 2019, Private Wings will operate an international scheduled flight to Aosta . Aosta is only a stopover, the flight then continues to Sardinia , to Olbia airport . The flight operates every Sunday.
In the 2019 summer flight schedule:
| airline | aims |
|---|---|
| Private wings | Aosta |
history
In the course of the armament of the Wehrmacht , the construction of a military airfield for the air force began in 1936/38 . Large parts of a prehistoric Celtic town, the Manching oppidum , were destroyed in the process; at least emergency salvage of archaeological finds was possible. The airfield was opened in 1938 as a military airfield for the Luftwaffe. The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary associations) that were stationed here between 1938 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 1938 | March 1939 | I./JG 433 (I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 433) | Messerschmitt Bf 109D , Bf 109E |
| October 1939 | February 1940 | Stab, I., II./KG 55 (Stab, I. and II. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwaders 55) | Heinkel He 111P |
| February 1940 | May 1940 | II./KG 53 | |
| June 1943 | September 1943 | I./KG 54 | Junkers Ju 88A-4 |
| October 1943 | March 1944 | III./KG 54 | |
| December 1943 | January 1944 | I./KG 54 | |
| December 1943 | December 1943 | II./KG 54 | |
| September 1944 | January 1945 | Parts of IV./NJG 6 (IV. Group of Night Fighter Squadron 6) | Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 |
When the airport was to be repaired in 1955 as part of the West German rearmament , the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation under Werner Krämer carried out extensive excavations for the first time. 1960 took over Air Force of the Armed Forces flight operations at the airport. Until 1969, the reconnaissance wing 51 equipped with the F-104 Starfighter was stationed in Manching .
On September 24, 1987, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President François Mitterrand were received with military honors when they visited the Kecker Spatz maneuver .
Since 1970 there have been efforts to achieve civil joint use of the airport. Finally, in December 1995, the operating company IMA, the civil joint use of the military airfield Ingolstadt-Manching mbH, was founded. After several discussions with the surrounding communities and the district of Pfaffenhofen, the application for aviation approval for civilian use was made on October 28, 1997. This was granted on April 1, 2000. The civil part was opened on September 20, 2001.
See also
Web links
- www.flugplatz-ingolstadt.de
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- http://www.bwb.org/wtd61
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summer flights to Italy: Ingolstadt gets a scheduled flight. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. March 30, 2019, accessed March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-1945 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 303-304 , accessed on 18 September 2014
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