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Airport names in italics are listed in the UK Aeronautical Information Publication. [1] Airport names in bold have scheduled commercial airline service(s). Runway information is for the longest runway when more than one is available.
List of airports with a paved runway at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long. Airport name Country ... ^D Paved runway 14R/32L, closed (length approximate)
Gatwick operates as a single-runway airport although it has two runways; the northern runway (08L/26R) can only be used when the main runway (08R/26L) is out of use. The UK Integrated Aeronautical Information Package gives the Takeoff Run Available (TORA) of its main runway (08R/26L) as 3,255 m when aircraft take off in a westerly direction (26 ...
With a runway of only 1,080 m (3,543 ft) in length, and a slope of the glidepath of 7.5° (for noise abatement reasons), the airport could only be used by a very limited number of aircraft types, principally the Dash 7 and the smaller Dornier 228. In 1989, the airport submitted a planning application to extend the runway, allowing the use of a ...
The single runway is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the coastline at 178 ft (54 m) above sea level. It has the 11th-longest civilian runway in the United Kingdom (after Heathrow's two runways, Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands, Doncaster, Prestwick and Belfast International), [3] 2,748 m (9,016 ft) in length. When ...
The airport has one of the shortest international airport runways in the country at just 2,011 m (6,598 ft) in length, with runway 27 having a threshold displacement of 140 metres (460 ft). Despite the short runway length, the airfield is able to accommodate aircraft as large as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A330. [40]
Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. [1] [3] In 2022, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passengers (the busiest outside of London) and the 19th-busiest airport in Europe in 2023, with 28.1 million passengers served.
Runway 27 from the air in October 2012, showing the newly installed lighting A Cessna 172 belonging to the Staverton Flying School taxiing in after landing; the control tower and part of the main apron are in the background Gloucestershire airport in 2017, looking west: from left to right is the M5 motorway; crossing the M5 is the A40 ...