Weston Airport Aerfort Weston | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Private investors | ||||||||||
| Operator | Weston Airport Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Dublin | ||||||||||
| Location | Leixlip, County Kildare / Lucan, Dublin | ||||||||||
| Time zone | GMT (UTC±00:00) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | IST (UTC+01:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 155 ft / 47 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°21′08″N 6°29′18″W / 53.35222°N 6.48833°W | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
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  EIWT Location of Weston Airport, west of Dublin  EIWT Location of Weston Airport in Ireland | |||||||||||
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Weston Airport, also called Dublin Weston Airport, is a publicly licensed general aviation (GA) airport serving Dublin and its environs since the early 1930s. It is located between Leixlip, County Kildare, and Lucan, Dublin 8 NM (15 km; 9.2 mi)[1] west of Dublin. Its traffic is primarily private and commercial flight training as well as business/executive travel. It is the only general aviation airport in the greater Dublin region, and is home to one of Ireland's two approved training organisations for ab-initio professional pilot training.
The runway lies across the border between Counties Kildare and Dublin. The facility is located on the Dublin side of the line. The airport operator's mailing address is in Lucan.[2]
- ^ a b EIWT – WESTON (PDF). AIP and charts from the Irish Aviation Authority.
- ^ "Latitude & Longitude of a Point" Archived 2017-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, itouchmap.com; accessed 8 May 2018.