Perth Airport (Scotland)

Perth Airport
Perth (Scone) Airport

IATA: PSL – ICAO: EGPT

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

ACS Aviation Ltd

Serves

Perth, Scotland

Elevation AMSL

397 ft / 121 m

Coordinates

56°26′28″N 003°22′26″W / 56.44111°N 3.37389°WCoordinates: 56°26′28″N 003°22′26″W / 56.44111°N 3.37389°W

Website

www.perthairport.eu/

Map

EGPT

Location in Perth and Kinross

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
03/21	853	2,799	Asphalt
09/27	609	1,998	Asphalt
15/33	620	2,034	Grass

Sources: UK AIP at NATS^[1]

Perth Airport (IATA: PSL, ICAO: EGPT) is a general aviation airport located at New Scone, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northeast^[1] of Perth, Scotland. The airport used by private and business aircraft, and for pilot training. There are no commercial scheduled flights from the airport.

Perth Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P823) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Morris Leslie Limited).^[2]

History

Above a Jetsream, G-NFLC, arrives to be used as an instructional airframe by AST. In the background is the original hangar 1, which dates back to the 1930s.

The airport opened in 1936 as Scone Aerodrome. A flight training school, training military pilots, was established by Airwork Ltd shortly after the airport was opened. Before the war a number of scheduled airline services operated from Perth to various domestic locations. During the war 309^[3] and 666 Squadrons from the Royal Air Force used the aerodrome.^[4] After the war Airwork moved into civilian pilot training.

By 1960 Airwork acquired Air Service Training (AST) an engineering training school, which it relocated from the south of England to the airport. The whole operation took on the AST name. AST gained a world wide reputation for aviation training, being known as Britain's Air University. Students of more than 100 countries have been trained at Perth. Following a worldwide downturn in aviation, AST pulled out of pilot training in 1996. The site was then bought by Morris Leslie Ltd.

Perth Airport remains Scotland's main airport for general aviation and is the base of the Scottish Aero Club which was founded in 1927. The airport is home to flight training organisations providing, private and commercial fixed and rotary winged flight training, as well as micro light and autogyro training. Also on site is an aircraft maintenance company and numerous other non aviation related businesses.

AST, which is now part of Perth College, retains a presence at the airport and continues to offer aeronautical engineering courses. In 2011 AST announced a returned to Airline Pilot training.

Perth Airport Air Traffic Control Tower.

References

Citations

1 2 Perth/Scone - EGPT
↑ Civil Aviation Authority Aerodrome Ordinary Licences
↑ Jefford 1988, p. 85.
↑ Jefford 1988, p. 104.

Bibliography

Jefford, C.G, MBE,BA ,RAF (Retd). RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988. ISBN 1-84037-141-2.
Allan, James (2002). Wings Over Scotland. Tervor. ISBN 0-9538191-1-6

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