Inverness Airport

Inverness Airport Port-Adhair Inbhir Nis
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGPE
IATA code	INV
Coordinates	57 ° 32 '33 "  N , 4 ° 2' 51"  W Coordinates: 57 ° 32 '33 "  N , 4 ° 2' 51"  W.
Height above MSL	9 m (30  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	15 km north of Inverness
Street	A96
Local transport	bus
Basic data
opening	1947
operator	Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
Passengers	783,017 (2016)
Flight movements	30,450 (2016)
Runways
05/23	1887 m × 46 m asphalt
11/29	700 m × 18 m asphalt

The Inverness Airport ( IATA code : INV , ICAO code : EGPE . Engl Inverness Airport , Scottish Gaelic port adhair Inbhir Nis ) is a small international commercial airport at Inverness in northern Scotland .

history

The airport was built in 1940 as a military airfield by the Air Ministry and served the Royal Air Force as Royal Air Force Station Dalcross , or RAF Dalcross for short, during World War II . The airfield was opened for civil aviation in 1947, but it was not until the 1970s that the then British European Airways , one of British Airways ' predecessor airlines , established its first regular service to London Heathrow .

Airlines and destinations

Inverness Airport mainly serves destinations in Great Britain, as well as a few European ones, but none in the DA-CH area.

Incidents

• On November 19, 1984, an Embraer EMB 110 of Euroair (UK) (registration G-HGGS ) flew on a mail flight from Inverness to Edinburgh nine kilometers south of Inverness Airport into a hill about 500 meters high. Four minutes after take-off, the machine was flown below the cloud base at a prescribed minimum altitude of 1,500 meters , broke and burned out. The pilot, the only occupant, was killed.

Web links

Commons : Inverness Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the Inverness Airport (english)
• Airport data from World Aero Data (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Passenger numbers at all airports in the United Kingdom. (PDF; 79 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed July 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Aircraft movements at all UK airports. (PDF; 157 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed July 30, 2017 . 
3. ^ Accident report EMB-110 G-HGGS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 17, 2017.