Papa Westray Airport

Luggage being loaded onto an early morning flight to Kirkwall from the airstrip

IATA: PPW – ICAO: EGEP

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Orkney Islands Council

Serves

Papa Westray

Elevation AMSL

91 ft / 28 m

Coordinates

59°21′06″N 002°54′01″W / 59.35167°N 2.90028°WCoordinates: 59°21′06″N 002°54′01″W / 59.35167°N 2.90028°W

Map

EGEP

Location in Orkney

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
04/22	527	1,729	Graded hardcore
07/25	334	1,096	Graded hardcore
18/36	343	1,125	Grass

Sources: UK AIP at NATS^[1]

Papa Westray Airport (IATA: PPW, ICAO: EGEP) is located 22 NM (41 km; 25 mi) north of Kirkwall Airport on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland.^[1] The facility is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service, to Westray Airport. The distance is 2.8 km (1.7 mi) and the scheduled flight time, including taxiing, is two minutes.^[2]

Papa Westray Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P542) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Orkney Islands Council). The aerodrome is not licensed for night use.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Loganair	Kirkwall, North Ronaldsay, Westray

References

1 2 "NATS - AIS - Home". Retrieved 2 February 2015.
↑ "Getting Here". Retrieved 2 February 2015.
↑ Civil Aviation Authority Aerodrome Ordinary Licences

External links

Airports of Scotland

Primary	Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow International Glasgow Prestwick Inverness Kirkwall Sumburgh

Regional	Barra Benbecula Broadford Campbeltown Coll Colonsay Cumbernauld Dundee Eday Fair Isle Fife Foula Glasgow Seaplane Terminal Glasgow City Heliport Islay RAF Kinloss Lerwick RAF Leuchars RAF Lossiemouth North Ronaldsay Oban Papa Westray Perth Sanday Scatsta Stornoway Stronsay Tiree Westray Wick

Airports in the United Kingdom, the British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories

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Scotland

Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow International Glasgow Prestwick Inverness

Smaller	Barra Benbecula Campbeltown Coll Colonsay Dundee Eday Fair Isle Islay Kirkwall Lerwick North Ronaldsay Oban Papa Westray Sanday Scatsta Stornoway Stronsay Sumburgh Tiree Westray Wick

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