Standorte – Akaflieg München

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Garching Forschungszentrum

Boltzmannstraße 15
85748 Garching b. München

Construction of new prototypes
Maintenance and repairs
Design office
Theory lessons

Hochschule München

Lothstraße 21
80797 München

Maintenance and repairs
Group meetings
Office

Königsdorf Airfield

Am Segelflugplatz 5
82549 Königsdorf

Maintenance and repairs
Flight operations and training
Events

An additional location at the TUM Campus Ottobrunn is currently in development.

Garching Forschungszentrum

We have two locations in Munich with workshop facilities and offices. The core of our activities is based at the Technical University of Munich on the Garching research campus. We are located in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the building of the Laboratory for Product Development and Lightweight Design. The building's test hall wing provides us with sufficient space to operate a metal workshop and a fiber composite workshop in separate areas. This separation is very important, as fiber composite components are highly sensitive to oils and greases of any kind during production.

We have a broad range of equipment such as a vacuum system or a roving drawing machine and all common processing machines for fibre composite construction. An overhead crane is also installed to handle heavy parts (some of our moulds weigh well over 500 kg). There is also an exhaust system, which is indispensable for all work with chemical substances and painting work. Furthermore, there is a fabric cabinet in which raw fibres and fabrics can be stored safely for later use, as well as all kinds of equipment for grinding and woodworking.

The metal workshop is also fully equipped. In addition to lathes, milling machines and drilling machines, you will also find various welding equipment (WIG, MIG/MAG, gas), folding benches, grinding machines and much more. A large part of our metal materials, including many common aviation steels and special alloys are stored here as well, which are used for repairs or new constructions. Recently, we also got our own CNC milling machine, which means that we are now less dependent on the support of the neighboring university chair.

The design office (KoBü), where we design our airplanes and do other administrative tasks, can be reached from courtyard 6 of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering by going to the basement in building 6 and following the Akaflieg signs. The room number is MW U632. The workshop can be found as a side room of the workshop of the Chair of Product Development and Lightweight Construction, next to the large wind tunnel. Usually, you can spot one of our glider trailers in front of it. The gate number is 2.

The workshop and the design office in Garching can be reached from Munich as follows:

By public transport

Take the U1, U2, U7 or U8 from Munich central station to Sendlinger Tor. From there, take the U6 in the direction of Garching-Forschungszentrum to the terminus. Take the exit at the end of the platform (in the direction of travel) to get out in front of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The path to the design office leads through the mechanical engineering building, while the path to the workshop leads around the outside on the right.

By car

Follow the A9 towards Nuremberg (Nürnberg) until the Garching-Nord exit and turn right onto Ludwig-Prandtl-Straße. Follow Ludwig-Prandtl-Straße to the gravel parking lot on the left and park there. From the gravel parking lot, it is about a 5-minute walk to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. We recommend parking as far north as possible.

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Munich University of Applied Sciences (downtown)

Our workshop at Munich University of Applied Sciences enables students at HM, LMU and the TUM inner-city campus in particular to carry out smaller projects without having to travel to Garching to do so. It also takes some of the pressure off the Garching workshop during peak hours of the plane maintenance in the winter. The workshop is located next to the parking lot of the "W-Bau". The entrance door to the workshop is the first (metal) door on the left side of the parking lot. As in Garching, there is often a glider trailer parked in front of the building.

Das Büro an der FH erreicht man vom Haupteingang des W-Baus (schräg gegenüber des „Roten Würfels“) aus, indem man die Treppe hinuntergeht und dann den Gang im Untergeschoss entlang läuft. Der Eingang befindet sich etwa mittig im Gang und kann gut an den Akaflieg-Plakaten erkannt werden. Die Raumnummer ist W-U31.

The locations at the Munich University of Applied Sciences can be reached as follows:

By public transport
From Munich main station, take tram line 20 in the direction of Moosach or tram line 21 in the direction of Westfriedhof. Get off at the stop "Hochschule München" and follow Lothstraße northward. The walk to the W-Building takes about 7 minutes.

Alternatively, from the U-Bahn station Universität, take bus 154 or 153 and get off at Infanteriestraße Süd. From there, it is only a few meters to get to us.

By car
From the city center of Munich:
Follow Dachauer Straße out of town, turn right at the streetcar stop "Hochschule München" onto Lothstraße. Follow Lothstraße until the W-Building of the Munich University of Applied Sciences is visible on the left.
From outside the city (e.g. A99 exit Ludwigsfeld):
Follow Dachauer Straße towards the city center to the Leonrodplatz tram stop, turn left onto Schwere-Reite-Straße, follow this road and turn right onto Infanteriestraße. Follow Infanteriestraße until the junction with Lothstraße and turn right onto Lothstraße.

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Airfield in Königsdorf

Our third location consists of the workshop and recreation rooms of our hangar at the KDF airfield. Here are again two workshop rooms, which are mainly used for maintenance activities during the flying season and for the maintenance of the Mü 30 Schlacro. There is also a well-equipped kitchen, a large recreation room and a mattress dormitory with a view of the aircraft in the hangar.

The airfield can be reached from Munich via the A95 and the B11. If you don't have access to your own car, you are welcome to get in touch with us, there are reliable carpooling opportunities, especially at weekends.

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Akaflieg hangar in KDF ↗︎