Brighton City Airport

Brighton City Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerBrighton & Hove City Council
OperatorCyrrus Holdings Limited
ServesSouth East, UK
LocationShoreham by Sea, West Sussex
Elevation AMSL7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates50°50′08″N 000°17′50″W / 50.83556°N 0.29722°W / 50.83556; -0.29722
Websiteflybrighton.com
Map
EGKA is located in West Sussex
EGKA
EGKA
Location in West Sussex
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
02/20 1,036 3,399 Asphalt
06/24 799 2,621 Grass
13/31 408 1,339 Grass
02/20
Unlicensed
700 2,297 Grass
Statistics (2018)
Passengers
Movements39,224
Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1]
Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2]

Brighton City Airport (IATA: ESH, ICAO: EGKA), also commonly known as Shoreham Airport, is located in the Shoreham by Sea in West Sussex, England. It has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

Founded in 1910, it is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world still in operation.[3] It is now owned by Brighton City Airport Ltd (BCAL).[4] The 1930s Art Deco terminal building designed by R Stavers Hessell Tiltman is listed grade II*.[5] The airport is 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) west of Shoreham-by-Sea[1] at Lancing in the Adur district of West Sussex. It is situated immediately to the south of the A27 road, between Brighton and Worthing, and immediately to the north of the West Coastway railway line.

  1. ^ a b "NATS – AIS – Home". ead-it.com.
  2. ^ "Data and analysis – UK Civil Aviation Authority". www.caa.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  3. ^ Bloom, Nick. "Sunny Shoreham", Pilot, February 2012, p70
  4. ^ "New plan 'safeguards future of Shoreham Airport'". worthingherald.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Heritage Gateway – Results". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018.