MOD St Athan

ICAO EGSY51.4052°N 3.4333°W50 m / 163 ftMedium airport

MOD St Athan (ICAO: EGSY) is a medium airport in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. It closed in 2006. It has one runway, 1,828 m (5,997 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Royal Air Force. In 2002 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 2006–2006

2006

ClosedMOD St Athan closes.

01 APR 2019

MilestoneCardiff Airport becomes the operator.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25073° / 253° · LIT

LENGTH1,828 m5,997 ftWIDTH43 m141 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

1997–2002

46K

75K

61K

32K

979899000102

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers9K (2002)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,732of 3,974 · #560 Europe · #42 GB Longest runway1,828 m5,997 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,724of 29,823 · #818 Europe · #66 GB Elevation50 m163 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,898of 43,341 · =4,529 Europe · =377 GB Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =120 GB

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

5 channels

APPAPP126.625

ATISATIS34.045

GNDGND24.112

MISCCARDIFF ATIS132.475

TWRTWR118.125