Ingolstadt Manching Airport
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The airbase Ingolstadt / Manching is a military airfield with civilian joint use. It lies between the towns of Manching and Ernsgaden in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen, eight kilometers southeast of Ingolstadt.
Military use
Operator of the aerodrome, the Armed Forces Service Center Ingolstadt. The Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft ( WTD 61) and the Airworthiness for aviation equipment of the Bundeswehr ( WTD 61 ML) use this airport as the main carrier needs. In the area of Airbus Defence and Space all European AWACS machines that German Transall C-160, the German Lockheed P-3 Orion, the German Panavia Tornado being overtaken and flown here for NATO. In future, the maintenance of the German Euro Fighter Typhoon will be added, as well as the maintenance was scheduled for EuroHawk.
Civil use
The civil part is classified as a special airport and it is operated by the Joint users Ingolstadt -Manching Airport GmbH (IMA ). About him daily shuttle transport flights and traffic for international automobile companies are mainly settled. 2006, some 62,000 passengers were handled in Ingolstadt. Hard stationed in ETSI are four machines in the airline Private Wings. In May 2007, a new terminal building for the civil aviation was opened. However, it only includes a counter and a small waiting room and is used almost exclusively by corporate traveler from Audi. Connections are available to Wolfsburg, Györ and Brussels.
The division of Cassidian Air and space technology company EADS leads here Flight tests ( among others, the Euro Fighter Typhoon and Tornado ) by early 2008 and has settled its entire range of military aircraft development here.
ETSI was a certified emergency landing ( Transoceanic Abort Landing Site, TAL ) for the Space Shuttle, but was never used for this purpose. It was in this program worldwide, a number of established airfields. They would have been used when the space shuttle would have achieved neither the planned orbit nor the necessary height for a complete circumnavigation of the earth because of a faulty drive or for other reasons the return to the starting point would have been impossible. The necessary then transport back to the United States would then, as used within the United States in part, been carried out piggyback on a specially equipped Boeing 747 ( Shuttle Carrier Aircraft).
History
As part of the upgrade of the Wehrmacht began 1936/38 the construction of a military airfield for the Air Force. Large parts of a prehistoric Celtic settlement, the oppidum of Manching were destroyed in the process; at least Notbergungen archaeological finds were possible. Should be set as the airport in 1955 as part of the West German rearmament repaired, were performed for the first time large -scale excavations by the Bavarian State Conservation Office under Werner Krämer. 1960 took over the Luftwaffe of the Bundeswehr flight operations at the airport. Until 1969 in Manching the equipped with the F -104 Starfighter Reconnaissance Wing 51 was stationed.
On September 24, 1987, Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President François Mitterrand received during their visit of the maneuver Kecker Sparrow with military honors at the airfield.
Since 1970, there have been efforts to reach a civil joint use of the airport. Finally, the operating company, IMA, company was founded to civilian shared use of the air base Ingolstadt- Manching mbH in December 1995. After several meetings with the surrounding communities and the district Oberpfaffenhofen the application was made on air permit issued for a civil joint use on 28 October 1997. This was granted on 1 April 2000. On 20 September 2001, the opening of the civilian part of took place.