Wick Airport

Wick John O' Groats Airport

Port-adhair Inbhir Ùige Taigh Iain Ghròt (Scottish Gaelic)
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorHIAL
ServesWick, Caithness
LocationWick, Scotland, UK
Elevation AMSL126 ft / 38 m
Coordinates58°27′32″N 003°05′35″W / 58.45889°N 3.09306°W / 58.45889; -3.09306
Websitehial.co.uk
Map
EGPC is located in Highland
EGPC
EGPC
Location in Highland
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 1,825 5,988 Grooved Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers10,719
Passenger change 2022-23Increase 55%
Aircraft movements2,963
Movements change 2022-23Increase 239%
Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1]
Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2]

Wick John O' Groats Airport (IATA: WIC, ICAO: EGPC) (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Inbhir Ùige Taigh Iain Ghròt) is located one nautical mile (two kilometres) north of the town of Wick, at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. It is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport provides commercial air travel connections for Caithness, with scheduled services to Aberdeen Airport and, until early 2020, Edinburgh. It remains regularly used by helicopters servicing local offshore oil operations and the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm. It also serves as a stop-over for light aircraft ferry flights between Europe and North America via Iceland. The airport also operates an out of hours call-out service for air ambulances, coastguard and police flights. The has one usable runway. Two are disused.[3]

  1. ^ "NATS | AIS – Home".
  2. ^ "Airport data 2022 | UK Civil Aviation Authority". caa.co.uk.
  3. ^ See Google Maps at coordinates given above.