Perth Airport (Scotland)

Perth Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGPT
IATA code	PSL
Coordinates	56 ° 26 '28 "  N , 3 ° 22' 26"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 26 '28 "  N , 3 ° 22' 26"  W
Height above MSL	121 m (397  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	5.6 km northeast of Perth
Street
Basic data
opening	1936
operator	ACS Aviation Ltd.
Runways
03/21	853 m × 27 m asphalt
09/27	609 m × 22 m asphalt
15/33	620 m × 36 m grass

Perth Airport ( IATA code : PSL , ICAO code : EGPT ) is a general airfield located at New Scone , 5.6 km northeast of Perth , Scotland . It is used by private and business aircraft and for pilot training. There are no commercial scheduled flights from the airport.

Perth Airport has a CAA Ordinary License (number P823) which permits flights for the carriage of passengers or flight instruction approved by the licensee (Morris Leslie Limited).

The airport operator is ACS Aviation Ltd. which operates the airfield daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. During business hours, Jet A1 kerosene and Avgas 100LL aviation fuel are available at the airport .

history

A Jetstream, G-NFLC, lands at Perth Airport. In the background is the original Hangar 1, which dates from the 1930s.

The airfield opened in 1936 as the Scone Aerodrome . A flight school that trains military pilots was established by Airwork Ltd. opened shortly after the airfield opened. Before the war, scheduled flights were offered from Perth to various locations. During the war, the 309 and 666 squadrons of the Royal Air Force used the airfield. After the war, Airwork began civilian pilot training.

In the 1960s, Air Service Training (AST) acquired an aeronautical engineering school which they moved to the airfield from the south of England. The entire company adopted the name AST . AST gained a worldwide reputation for aviation education and became known as Britain's Air University . Students from more than 100 countries were trained in Perth. After a global aviation downturn, AST withdrew from pilot training in 1996. The site was then taken over by Morris Leslie Ltd. Bought.

Perth Airport remains Scotland's main general aviation airport and is the base of the Scottish Aero Club , which was founded in 1927. The airfield is home to flight schools that offer private and commercial flight training. There is also an aircraft maintenance company on site and numerous other companies that are not related to aviation.

AST, now part of Perth College , is still present at the airfield and offers aeronautical engineering courses. In 2011 AST announced that it would start again in pilot training.

Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) was founded in 2012 and started Helicopter Ambulance Services in May 2013 to support the Scottish Air Ambulance Service (SAAS) to move time-sensitive emergencies across Scotland. SCAA offers a fully equipped medical helicopter that can be deployed from its central base at Perth Airport to incidents anywhere in Scotland.

Web links

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

• Official website (English)
• Perth Airport operator (English)
• ACS Flight Training (English)
• Scottish Aero Club (English)
• Air Service Training (English)
• ACS Engineering (English)