Carlisle Lake District Airport
Airport in Irthington, Cumbria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carlisle Lake District Airport (IATA: CAX, ICAO: EGNC) is a regional airport located 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east north-east of Carlisle, England. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the passenger terminal has been closed as from the 1st of April 2020 "until further notice".[3]
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Airport type | Private | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Esken | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Stobart Aviation | ||||||||||||||
Location | Irthington, Cumbria | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 190 ft / 58 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°56′15″N 002°48′33″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Location in the City of Carlisle district, Cumbria Show map of the former City of Carlisle district | |||||||||||||||
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Carlisle has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights up to a maximum takeoff weight authorised (MTWA) of 12.5 tonnes. The airport is located on a hillside above the River Irthing. The airport has been the location for some prehistoric excavations.[4]
Since May 2009, the airport has been owned by Esken (formerly known as Stobart Group) on a 150-year lease. Between December 2014 and September 2015, a £12 million freight distribution centre was built on the south-eastern corner of the site, which is now leased to Eddie Stobart Logistics. Stobart Group also intended to build a further warehousing and distribution hub from 2017 on land adjacent to the freight distribution centre. After financial assistance from the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership, there were plans for passenger flights from June 2018 "to major tourism and business hubs including London, Dublin and Belfast" but the target date was postponed.[5] On 4 July 2019 the new terminal was officially opened, and the first scheduled passenger flights since 1993 were commenced by Loganair to Belfast–City, Dublin, London–Southend until 2021.[6]