Skip to content
SKYHIGH NETWORK
  • Airports
  • Events
  • News
  • Training
  • Community
DiscordSign in
  • Airports
  • Events
  • News
  • Training
  • Community
DiscordSign in

SKYHIGH NETWORK

A free virtual airspace built and run by its members. Fly real routes, work real positions, and learn on frequency from people who have done both.

All systems operational

Fly

  • Airports
  • Plan a leg
  • The map

Network

  • Events
  • Network news
  • Training
  • Operational status
  • Start flying now

Help

  • The community
  • Help and support
  • Report a bug
  • Suggest something
  • Discord

Legal

  • User Agreement
  • Code of Conduct
  • Privacy Notice

SKYHIGH ------Z NETWORK ONLINE ALL SYSTEMS NORMAL

© 2026 SkyHigh Network. A hobbyist network, not affiliated with any real world aviation authority.

Join us on Discord
All airports
EGVAFFD

RAF Fairford

Fairford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Elevation
286 ft
Runways
1
Longest
9,994 ft
Position
51.684, -1.789
!

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

0927N1 km
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
EGVNEGBJEGTKEGUBEGGDEGHLEGLKEGBBEGVAN
10 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • EGVN9
  • EGBJ19
  • EGTK20
  • EGUB26
  • EGGD39
  • EGHL41
  • EGLK41
  • EGVO42
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 10 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 9,994 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.6 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 7th

    Longest in United Kingdom

    of 80 airfields in the country

  • 964th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 16th

    Highest in United Kingdom

    286 ft above sea level

  • 9 nm

    Nearest airfield

    EGVN, bearing 062

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

Fetching the latest report...

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
09/279,994 ft200 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • GNDGND234.250
  • TWRTWR119.150
  • TWRNot named338.220
  • APPAPP119.000
  • CACCAC124.275
  • DIRBRIZE DIRECTOR133.750
  • PMSVPMSV METRO25.775
  • PTDPDT233.470

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 EGVA
  • EGVA to EGVN, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at EGVA 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

  • EGVNRAF Brize Norton9 nm
  • EGBJGloucestershire Airport19 nm
  • EGTKLondon Oxford Airport20 nm
  • EGUBRAF Benson26 nm
  • EGGDBristol Airport39 nm
  • EGHLLasham Airfield41 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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