Scatsta Airport

Scatsta Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGPM
IATA code	SCS
Coordinates	60 ° 25 '58 "  N , 1 ° 17' 46"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 25 '58 "  N , 1 ° 17' 46"  W.
Height above MSL	25 m (82  ft )
Basic data
operator	Serco
Passengers	162,100 (2016)
Air freight	456 t (2016)
Flight movements	7,894 (2016)
Start-and runway
06/24	1360 m × 31 m asphalt

BAe 146 just before landing

The scatsta airport is an airport on the Mainland of Shetland . The airfield is operated by Serco on behalf of IAC .

The airfield was built during the Second World War as a base for British fighter planes in order to be able to better repel German attacks from Norway. Two intersecting runways (13/31 and 07/25) were built for this purpose. After the end of the war, the airfield was abandoned. In 1968 the US Coast Guard set up a LORAN-C transmission station at the northern end of runway 13/31. Interest in the airfield reawakened in the 1970s with the development of the oil fields , e.g. B. the Brent oil field in 1975, in the northern North Sea . The oil produced there is pumped ashore via pipelines and loaded into tankers at the nearby Sullom Voe Oil Terminal . In order to be able to supply the drilling rigs with helicopters on the one hand and to be able to transport personnel from the British mainland to the oil terminal or the drilling rigs on the other hand, the reopening of the airfield was decided in 1977. The new asphalt runway 06/24 was built over the old runway 07/25. In 1978 the airfield went back into operation. In the following years the airfield was modernized several times and additional buildings and hangars were built on the former runway 13/31.

In the meantime, Scatsta Airport is mainly used by helicopters (e.g. Eurocopter EC 225 ) and aircraft (e.g. BAe 146 ) in the oil and gas industry, which handle personnel and goods there to supply the drilling rigs and the associated infrastructure.

Web links

Commons : Scatsta Airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Passenger numbers at all airports in the United Kingdom. (PDF; 79 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Freight figures from all UK airports. (PDF; 12 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Aircraft movements at all UK airports. (PDF; 157 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ eurocontrol.int: Scatsta Aerodrome Chart. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 30, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ world-airport-codes.com: Scatsta (SCS) United Kingdom. Retrieved January 28, 2013 . 
6. ↑ eurocontrol.int: EGPM — SCATSTA. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 30, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ shetlopedia.com: Scatsta Airport. Retrieved January 30, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Undiscovered Scotland: Sullom Voe. Retrieved January 30, 2013 .