Campbeltown Airport

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Campbeltown Airport Port-adhair Ceann Loch
IATA: CAL – ICAO: EGEC
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Owner		Ministry of Defence
Operator		Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
Serves		Campbeltown
Location		Kintyre, Scotland
Elevation AMSL		42 ft / 13 m
Coordinates		55°26′14″N 005°41′11″W / 55.43722, -5.68639
Website		Campbeltown Airport
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
11/29	3,049	10,003	Asphalt
Source: UK AIP at NATS

Campbeltown Airport (IATA: CAL, ICAO: EGEC) is located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) west of Campbeltown, near the tip of the Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. It is still owned by the Ministry of Defence, under a 'care and maintenance' programme, but a part of the airfield is now run as a commercial enterprise by the Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, a company under the control of the Scottish Executive.

The airport was formerly known as RAF Machrihanish, (after the village of Machrihanish) and hosted squadrons of the Royal Air Force and other NATO airforces as well as the United States Marine Corps. It is now called MoD Machrihanish. The airport is at a strategic point over the Irish sea, and was used to guard the entrance to the Firth of Clyde where US nuclear submarines were based at Holy Loch and where Royal Navy Trident missile submarines are still based at HMNB Clyde (Faslane Naval Base).

Permanent full time military operations ceased in 1997.

At 3,049 metres, Runway 11/29 at Campbeltown Airport is the longest of any public airport in Scotland. It was built in World War II to permit heavily-fuelled aircraft to take off on transatlantic flights and is certificated to accept the Space Shuttle should it need to make landfall in Europe, and provides for the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to get airborne again.

Campbeltown Aerodrome has a CAA] Ordinary Licence (Number P808) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Highlands & Islands Airports Limited)^[1].

[edit] Scheduled Services

• British Airways
  • operated by Loganair (Glasgow) (ends 25 October)
• Flybe
  • operated by Loganair (Glasgow) (begins 26 October)

[edit] External links

• Campbeltown Airport - Official website

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