BWF

Barrow Walney Island Airport

ICAO EGNL54.1286°N 3.2675°W53 m / 173 ftMedium airport
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Barrow Walney Island Airport (IATA: BWF, ICAO: EGNL) is a medium airport in Barrow-in-Furness, England, United Kingdom. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,048 m (3,438 ft). It is operated by BAE Systems Submarines. In 2001 it handled 206 passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23056° / 236° · LIT
LENGTH1,048 m3,438 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt
17/35166° / 346° · LIT
LENGTH1,011 m3,318 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

1986–2001
6K
7K
6K
513
651
344
169
206
105
121
77
206
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Routes

7 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BWF. From the Wikipedia article “Walney Aerodrome” (revision of 5 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers206 (2001)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=3,558of 3,974 · #725 Europe · #51 GBLongest runway1,048 m3,438 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=12,995of 29,823 · #1,370 Europe · #119 GBElevation53 m173 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,602of 43,341 · =4,465 Europe · #369 GBRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =134 Europe · =41 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

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