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Carlisle Airport

Carlisle Lake District Airport is a small airport located 5 NM north-east of , England on a plain near the . 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.
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  • 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 include Church of St Kentigern, Irthington and Scaleby Castle.

Church
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Castle
Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in the village of , , England. The castle was originally built in the early 14th century, and extended in the 15th century to form a substantial fortification.

Church
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stands about 1 mile to the west of the town of , , England. It was originally the of Brampton but is now redundant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laversdale and Crosby-on-Eden.

Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England, situated to the north of Carlisle Lake District Airport. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 428. One of its more distinctive buildings is a thatched tithe barn, now a private house.

Locality
Photo: ally McGurk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the combined name for two small villages, High Crosby and Low Crosby, within the civil parish of near Carlisle, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Village
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is a village in the county of in the north of England. It is east of the city of Carlisle, alongside the and near to the A69 road.

Carlisle Airport

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
way 96941744
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6296604
Wiki­data ID
Q3536424
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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”
  • French: “CAX”
  • German: “Carlisle Lake District Airport”
  • German: “Flughafen Carlisle Lake District”
  • Indonesian: “CAX”
  • Indonesian: “EGNC”
  • Japanese: “カーライル・レイク・ディストリクト空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Carlisle”
  • Persian: “CAX”
  • Persian: “EGNC”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carlisle Airport”. Photo: Supmaboi, CC BY-SA 4.0.