Carlisle Airport
Carlisle Lake District Airport is a small airport located 6 miles north-east of Carlisle, England on a plain near the River Irthing. Originally opened as an RAF base in 1941, it came under government ownership in the 1960s before being sold to Haughey Airports in 2000 which was later purchased and rebranded as Stobart Air Limited.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Carlisle Lake District Airport”, “CAX”, and “EGNC”
- Postal code: CA6 4NW
Places of Interest
Highlights: Church of St Kentigern, Irthington and Scaleby Castle.
Brampton Old Church
Church
Brampton Old Church stands about 1 mile to the west of the town of Brampton, Cumbria, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laversdale and Crosby-on-Eden.
Carlisle Airport
- Categories: airport and transport
- Location: Irthington, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.93846° or 54° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
-2.80869° or 2° 48′ 31″ west
Elevation
187 feet (57 metres)
Operator
Stobart Air Ltd.
IATA airport code
CAX
ICAO airport code
EGNC
Open location code
9C6VW5QR+9G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Carlisle Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Carlisle Lake District Airport”
- Chinese: “卡萊爾湖區域機場”
- French: “aéroport de Carlisle Lake”
- German: “Carlisle Lake District Airport”
- German: “Flughafen Carlisle Lake District”
- Japanese: “カーライル・レイク・ディストリクト空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Carlisle”
- Persian: “فرودگاه منطقه کارلایل لیک”
- Piemontese: “Carlisle Airport”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Carlisle Lake District”
- Russian: “Карлайл (аэропорт)”
- Russian: “Карлайл”
- Swedish: “Carlisle Lake District Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи мантақа корлоил лик”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Oldwall and Irthington.
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Highlights: Carlisle Lake District Airport and Watchclose Woods.
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