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EGBBBHXMajor airport

Birmingham Airport

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Elevation
327 ft
Runways
1
Longest
10,013 ft
Position
52.454, -1.748
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

1533N1 km
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
EGNXEGBJEGBNEGOSEGTKEGVNEGXTEGTCEGBBN
9 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • EGNX27
  • EGBJ37
  • EGBN37
  • EGOS39
  • EGTK40
  • EGVN43
  • EGVA46
  • EGXT47
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 9 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 10,013 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.6 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 3rd

    Longest in United Kingdom

    of 80 airfields in the country

  • 864th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 11th

    Highest in United Kingdom

    327 ft above sea level

  • 27 nm

    Nearest airfield

    EGNX, bearing 034

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

Fetching the latest report...

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
15/3310,013 ft148 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS136.020
  • GNDGND121.800
  • TWRTWR118.300
  • APPAPP118.050
  • APPNot named123.975
  • FIRENot named121.600

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of EGBB
  • EGBB to EGNX, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at EGBB yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • EGNXEast Midlands Airport27 nm
  • EGBJGloucestershire Airport37 nm
  • EGBNNottingham City Airport37 nm
  • EGOSRAF Shawbury39 nm
  • EGTKLondon Oxford Airport40 nm
  • EGVNRAF Brize Norton43 nm

Elsewhere

  • Airport website
Wikipedia

Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.