Campbeltown Airport
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| Campbeltown Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: CAL - ICAO: EGEC | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | HIAL | ||
| Serves | Campbeltown | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 42 ft (13 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 11/29 | 10,003 | 3,049 | Asphalt |
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 owned 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. 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 Royal Navy nuclear submarines based at Faslane Naval Base.
Military operations ceased in 1997.
At 3049 metres, Runway 29 at Campbeltown Airport is the longest of any public airport in Scotland.It was built in WW2 to permit heavily-fuelled aircraft to take off on trans-Atlantic flights and is certificated to accept the Space-Shuttle should it need to make landfall in Europe, and provides for the Shuttle/Boeing 747 lifter to get airborne again.
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- British Airways
- Loganair (Glasgow)
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