London City Airport
| London City Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport teep | Public | ||||||||||
| Awner | GIP (75%) Highstar Capital (25%) | ||||||||||
| Operator | London City Airport Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick | ||||||||||
| Location | Silvertown | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1987 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 19 ft / 6 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°30′19″N 000°03′19″E / 51.50528°N 0.05528°ECoordinates: 51°30′19″N 000°03′19″E / 51.50528°N 0.05528°E | ||||||||||
| Wabsteid | londoncityairport.com | ||||||||||
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12.0%London City Airport (IATA: LCY, ICAO: EGLC) is a airport in Lunnon. It is locatit on a umwhile Docklands steid in the London Borough of Newham, some 6 NM (11 km; 6.9 mi) east o the Ceety o Lunnon an a rather smawer distance east o Canary Wharf. These are the twin centres o Lunnon's financial industry, which is a major uiser o the airport. The airport wis developit bi the ingineerin company Mowlem in 1986–87 an is nou awned bi a consortium comprisin AIG Financial Products Corp. an Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).
London City Airport haes a single 1,500-metre (4,900 ft) lang runwey, an a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P728) that allous flichts for the public transport o passengers or for flicht trainin (but anerly for trainin necessary for the operation o aircraft at the airport).[3] Anerly multi-ingine, fixed-wing aircraft wi special aircraft an aircrew certification tae flee 5.5° approaches are alloued tae conduct operations at London City Airport.[4]
In 2013, London City servit ower 3.3 million passengers, a 12% increase compared wi 2012 an a record total for the airport. It wis the fift busiest airport in terms o passengers an aircraft muivements servin the Lunnon aurie efter Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted an Luton an the 15t busiest in the UK.[2]
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- ↑ "London/City – EGLC". Nats-uk.ead-it.com. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "UK Annual Airport Statistics". CAA. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedIAIP - ↑ "Certification requirements for London City Airport" (PDF). Isle of Man Aircraft Registry. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
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