EDDS is the ICAO code for Stuttgart Airport (IATA STR), located in Stuttgart, Germany.
Stuttgart Airport (EDDS) sits 8 miles south of central Stuttgart in southwestern Germany. The single 10,991 ft runway handles every current business jet; multiple FBOs handle business movements. Field elevation 1,276 ft, no density-altitude concerns. Stuttgart corporate flow is dominated by Daimler (Mercedes-Benz HQ) and Porsche (HQ in nearby Zuffenhausen), plus the broader Baden-Württemberg engineering corridor (Bosch, ZF Friedrichshafen). Structural event: the Frankfurt Motor Show flow when held (now alternating with Munich). Ground time to the Mercedes-Benz Museum is 15 minutes; downtown Stuttgart is 20; the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen is 30.
Stuttgart Airport, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen, is an international airport serving Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is christened in honor of Stuttgart's former mayor, Manfred Rommel, son of Erwin Rommel, and is the sixth busiest airport in Germany with 11,832,634 passengers having passed through its doors in 2018. The facility covers approximately 400 hectares, of which 190 hectares are green space.
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