
Mönchengladbach Airport EDLN / MGL
Düsseldorf's uncongested reliever, home to Rheinland Air Service's FBO and maintenance base and 30 minutes from central Düsseldorf. Customs on request; the 1,200 m runway restricts it to light jets and turboprops.
3,937 ft
Longest runway
30 min
Drive to Düsseldorf
1
FBOs / handlers
125 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- 07:00–22:00 (verify); PPR
- 24-hour operations
- No
- Customs & immigration
- Yes
- Prior permission (PPR)
- Yes
- Slot coordination
- No
- Noise curfew
- Yes
- Runway surface
- asphalt
- Fuel
- Jet A-1, Avgas 100LL
- Helipad
- Yes
- Distance to centre
- 30 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Turboprops and light jets (Citation CJ, Phenom 300, PC-24); short runway.
- Website
- www.mgl.de
Private terminals (FBOs)
- Rheinland Air Service (RAS)
An FBO is the private terminal: lounge, crew, fuel, customs desk. You drive up, walk 30 metres, and board.
Which jets can use this runway?
Based on published takeoff distances at maximum weight versus a 3,937 ft runway. Hot days, high elevation and wet runways reduce the margin.
✓ Comfortably
- Textron Aviation Citation Latitude 3,580 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Sovereign+ 3,530 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Ascend 3,660 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation XLS Gen2 3,600 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Excel/XLS 3,560 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Phenom 300E 3,209 ft
✕ Marginal or no
- Textron Aviation Premier IA needs 3,792 ft
- Nextant Aerospace 400XTi needs 3,821 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 450 needs 3,907 ft
Other airports for Düsseldorf
- Düsseldorf Airport EDDL 9,843 ft · 15 min