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 include Church of St Kentigern, Irthington and Scaleby Castle.
Scaleby Castle
Castle
Scaleby Castle is in the village of Scaleby, Cumbria, England. The castle was originally built in the early 14th century, and extended in the 15th century to form a substantial fortification.
Brampton Old Church
Church
Brampton Old Church stands about 1 mile to the west of the town of Brampton, Cumbria, England. It was originally the parish church of Brampton but is now redundant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laversdale and Crosby-on-Eden.
Laversdale
Hamlet
Laversdale is a village in Cumbria, 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.
Crosby-on-Eden
Locality
Crosby-on-Eden is the combined name for two small villages, High Crosby and Low Crosby, within the civil parish of Stanwix Rural near Carlisle, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Little Corby
Village
Little Corby is a village in the county of Cumbria in the north of England. It is east of the city of Carlisle, alongside the River Eden and near to the A69 road.
Carlisle Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Irthington, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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Satellite Map
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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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