# Land's End Airport (LEQ / EGHC)

**Land's End Airport** (IATA: LEQ, ICAO: EGHC) is a small airport in Land's End, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has 4 runways; the longest is 784 m (2,572 ft). In 2022 it handled 64 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/eghc

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: LEQ / EGHC
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Land's End, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- Elevation: 121 m / 398 ft
- Coordinates: 50.1028, -5.6706
- Runways: 4
- Longest runway: 784 m / 2,572 ft
- Passengers: 63,629 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+0/+1 · Europe/London
- Website: https://www.landsendairport.co.uk/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%27s_End_Airport (16 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q474682
- Weather station: EGHC · WMO 03806
- Ident: EGHC

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16/34 | 784 m / 2,572 ft | 18 m / 59 ft | Asphalt | 162° / 342° |  |
| 07/25 | 693 m / 2,274 ft | 18 m / 59 ft | Asphalt | 068° / 248° |  |
| 02/20 | 483 m / 1,585 ft | 19 m / 62 ft | Grass | 023° / 203° |  |
| 12/30 | 479 m / 1,571 ft | 18 m / 59 ft | Grass | 116° |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 33,098 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 31,964 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 46,299 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 44,475 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 54,169 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 64,804 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 59,386 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 63,862 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 63,847 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 34,556 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 53,105 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 63,629 | Wikidata |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [ISC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eghe.md) St. Mary's Airport · United Kingdom · 49 km / 30 mi · Isles of Scilly Skybus

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from LEQ, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Hub airlines (1)

- [Westward Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/westward-airways)

### Passenger (1)

- 5Y [Isles of Scilly Skybus](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/isles-of-scilly-skybus) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 64K (2022) | #1,987 of 3,974 | #426 in Europe | #34 in GB |
| Longest runway | 784 m / 2,572 ft | #20,187 of 29,858 | #2,080 in Europe | #182 in GB |
| Elevation | 121 m / 398 ft | =29,129 of 43,403 | =3,203 in Europe | #139 in GB |
| Runways | 4 | =41 of 29,978 | =10 in Europe | =2 in GB |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/G | Lands End St.Just A/G | 130.700 |
| TWR | Lands End St.Just TWR | 130.700 |
| RAD/APP | Lands End St.Just RAD/APP | 130.700 |

## Nearby airports

- [GB-0550](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0550.md) Lower Botrea · 3.1 km / 1.9 mi
- [GB-0524](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0524.md) Tempest Airstrip · 18 km / 11 mi
- [EGDR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egdr.md) RNAS Culdrose · 30 km / 18 mi
- [EGDO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egdo.md) Predannack Airfield · 33 km / 21 mi
- [GB-0988](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0988.md) Bonnallack Airstrip · 35 km / 21 mi
- [GB-0060](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0060.md) Porthtowan Airfield · 37 km / 23 mi

## In collections

- [Shortest runways with airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/shortest-scheduled) #37

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Land's End Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Land's_End_Airport&oldid=1371641303), revision of 27 Aug 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/eghc/data