Talk:List of airports in the United Kingdom and the British Crown Dependencies

Staverton and Fairford
I've added Staverton and Fairford because I've been to airshows at both, so I'm fairly confident there are airfields there. Any ideas about what to do about the huge number of WW II airfields that eventually became defunct? From my own knowledge, in Worcestershire there's Honeybourne (A Wellington bomber base in WW II, now an industrial estate), Perdiswell (now a sports centre), Throckmorton (a former training base in WW II, a Vulcan Bomber base up to the 70s, in the UK news recently as a possible site for an asylum seekers camp), Defford (used in WWII for test flights of the radar systems being developed down the road at Malvern, now has an interesting set of radar & satellite dishes and an interferometer link with Jodrell Bank observatory): in Gloucestershire there was Moreton-in-the-Marsh (now the national firefighters training college), and Stoke Prior (formerly a glider base, now an industrial estate). This is not an exhausive list, even for this small area... Malcolm Farmer 23:38 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Bold / Non-bold
Just curious, I was adding Dundee Airport and I noticed some airports are in bold and others not. What is the pattern for this? --Colin Angus Mackay 10:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Just to answer my own question. A little investigation found this "(IATA coded airports in bold)" in the history comments. --Colin Angus Mackay 20:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RAF
Should the RAF bases be named "RAF Benson" etc ?

Updates
I found this list very confusing and so must have the general reader. As an example there is an article on "Benbecula Airport" but the list had the link pointing to "Benbecula". I've fixed those so now they point to the airport even if that means having a red link. At the same time rather than sort by airport name, which can be done by looking through the category, I have done as other lists of airports and sorted by community served. For references I have used in order of preference the Governments Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP), World Aero Data: United Kingdom, FallingRain.com: Airports in the United Kingdom, The Airport Guide: United Kingdom, A-Z World Airports Online: United Kingdom, official sites and Airports in the United Kingdom. The AIP is the reason that you get the odd airport names such as "Londonderry/Eglinton Airport" for the "City of Derry Airport". Governments in several countries appear to have different names than the one used by the airport operator. I think it may be an ICAO reason. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Town
The town entries look a bit daft for military airfields ! should we remove them MilborneOne 13:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


 * See question below. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Organisation
Could this list be organised by county or something? It's a bit useless as it is. --88.110.189.21 20:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Support other comments made, it is very difficult to find an airport as the town is not the first thing you think of (and most of them are not relevant (military, small and manufacturer's airfields) - can we just change this to alphabetic order - any comments from watchers. MilborneOne 12:06, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * If it's in alphabetical order by airport then the list is unnecessary. All you would need is a redirect to Category:Airports in the United Kingdom as it's already in that order. There are several "List of airport in Country" on Wikipedia and they are usually by town name. Sometimes they are also sorted by region and this would probably work well for this list as, England, Northen Ireland, Scotland and Wales (it could be broken up to four seperate lists to reduce size). I would really oppose removing any just because they are small, etc. The list is supposed to be complete not a partial list. In answer to the question below this was not intended to be a finished list but the links to the WAD, etc were to provide an easy source for completing the missing airports. For an idea of what else could be included look at List of airports in British Columbia as an example. And while I did create that one, I got the idea of sorting by town from other airport lists on Wikipedia. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The current listing is a big improvement, but the England section is still too long. Subdividing based on the Regions of England would be good. --88.110.227.30 19:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Might be a good idea but even people in England wouldnt know which regions was were!!.MilborneOne 19:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

World Aero Data
Should the links to World Aero Data be on the article page and not on this list ? MilborneOne 12:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See above question. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Italics
What is the significance of putting some airport/airfield names in italics? There seems to be no consistency. I suspect a tidy up is needed. --Cheesy Mike 10:02, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Two days later no answer so using WP:Bold I removed the italics from every airport name. The table looks much better now. --Cheesy Mike (talk) 11:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed this until now. If you look at the third sentence of the article it says "Airports in italics are listed in the UK Aeronautical Information Publication." It shows at glace which airports are certified/registered with the UK Government. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Town (2)
I wonder if this could be changed to Associated town as many aiports are not located within the boundaries of the places they are named after? MRSC • Talk 00:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Take a look at List of airports in France. Would something like that be a good idea? Have a column for location, serves, ICAO, IATA, airport name. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * This would work well, split by region. MRSC • Talk 21:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I've made a start at Talk:List of airports in the United Kingdom/Regions. It would still need the towns fixing though. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 00:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Look a lot better divided into regions, not sure what to do about towns, if changed to associated towns it may not be possible to agree what they are. Suggest leaving the list broken down by regions and just change the town to county. If the reader cant work out where it is then he can just use the airport/airfield/aerodrome link to find out more, also solve the problem of mil airfields that are not really associated with towns. MilborneOne (talk) 19:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Tfda 70.27.175.213 (talk) 01:04, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I did another by counties at Talk:List of airports in the United Kingdom/Counties. The airports for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have also been updated. For both the counties and town lists I have moved the London airports into the correct region/county. So Southend Airport, for example, is listed under "East of England" "Southend-on-Sea" in the first list and "East of England" "Essex" in the second. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 00:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes I like the counties version. MilborneOne (talk) 11:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Do they look correct? East Midlands Aiport puzzled me. The airport article and the Castle Donington article both seem to indicate that it's in Leicestershire but the contact page says Derby. Just realised that some of them may not be completely correct. I used the town name from the airport article to give the county but I must have used the town served in some cases rather than the location which might give a different county. Some others that I wasn't sure of include "Isle of Wight", "Bristol" and "Belfast Metropolitan Area". CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 12:46, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * East Midlands Airport is in Leicestershire - the nearest big city is Derby which is not! one reason not to use associated towns! I will check some of the others for you. MilborneOne (talk) 12:58, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That's the only one where I didn't use the associated town but the official site. Very odd though. Google Earth clearly shows that Castle Donington is within the boarders of Leicestershire but both the tag on Google Earth and the airport site say "Castle Donington, Derby." Ah well. Thanks for checking. The ones that might be wrong would be those close to county borders. I just noticed that Biggin Hill was missing and I also tagged the airports normally associated with London. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 13:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

The regions version is better. The other list looks odd because of the amount of repetition in the first column. MRSC • Talk 21:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Query - Old Warden EGTH
Has EGTH been assigned to Old Warden ?

Nothing on NATS/AIS

EGTH was Hatfield. Basys (talk) 20:58, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * CAA Frequency Document of April 2008 has Shuttleworth/Old Warden as EGTH so it has been re-allocated. MilborneOne (talk) 19:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorting
As the runway length column has text in some entries e.g. "600 x 18" it makes the column sortable rather annoyingly alphabetically rather than numerically, e.g. 9 would come before 8000, and 10,xxx comes last after 1xxx. WatcherZero (talk) 18:16, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The lengths should be in metres anyway as that's what the source would have. something lame from CBW 00:54, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Crown dependencies
The three crown dependencies aren't part of the UK. Should the title of this list be changed to correctly and accurately reflect its scope? 119.236.250.27 (talk) 15:09, 19 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I would not have changed the article's name, but just put in some reference to the specialties. Meerwind7 (talk) 18:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Manston
Any reason why Manston in Kent is not included? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3405664,1.3473099,2022m/data=!3m1!1e3

Shanemcc (talk) 09:28, 13 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Probably because it has closed and had its operating licence removed. MilborneOne (talk) 11:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

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Completeness of lists / defunct airfields & aerodromes
There is mention that this list is meant to be complete, "even if there are redlinks", so I trust it's OK if I add some more operating Northern Irish airfields. Now, the situation is less clear re. defunct aerodromes, dozens are missing across the territory, incl. NI, though they are sometimes included in lists of this type. Is it part of the article's definition that only currently operating airfields are included? SeoR (talk) 01:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)