Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is located on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, off the West Coast of Scotland. It is a small rural airport owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland
- Also known as: “Balivanich Airport”, “BEB”, “Benbecula”, “EGPL”, “Port Adhair Baile a‘ Mhanaich”, and “Port Adhair Bheinn na Faoghla”
- Address: Baile a ‘Mhanaich, Isle of Benbecula, HS7 5LA
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uist and Barra Hospital and St Mary’s Chapel.
Uist and Barra Hospital
Hospital
Ospadal Uibhist agus Bharraigh is a community hospital in Benbecula which provides services on the islands of North Uist, South Uist and Benbecula in the Western Isles of Scotland. It is managed by NHS Western Isles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balivanich and Uachdar.
Balivanich
Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 1300 in 2021. The name is a medieval mispronunciation: "pen" meaning flat land turned into "ben" for mountain, which it doesn't have.
Uachdar
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Uachdar is a settlement on the Outer Hebridean Island of Benbecula. Uachdar is within the parish of South Uist. The settlement is home to the only bakery on Benbecula, MacLeans Hebridean Bakery, which also has a small shop in the same complex as the bakery itself.
Nunton
Village
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 1300 in 2021. The name is a medieval mispronunciation: "pen" meaning flat land turned into "ben" for mountain, which it doesn't have.
Benbecula Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.48112° or 57° 28′ 52″ northLongitude
-7.36204° or 7° 21′ 43″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Operator
Highlands and Islands Airports LimitedIATA airport code
BEBICAO airport code
EGPLOpen location code
9C9JFJJQ+C5OpenStreetMap ID
way 274656610OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
6296630Wikidata ID
Q1658886
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Benbecula Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Benbecula Airport”
- Chinese: “外赫布里底群岛本贝丘拉（BEB）”
- Chinese: “外赫布里底群島本貝丘拉（BEB）”
- Chinese: “本貝丘拉機場”
- French: “Aérodrome de Benbecula”
- French: “aérodrome de Royaume Uni”
- French: “aéroport de Benbecula”
- French: “BEB”
- French: “Benbecula”
- French: “EGPL”
- German: “Benbecula Airport”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Benbecula”
- Indonesian: “BEB”
- Indonesian: “EGPL”
- Irish: “Aerfort Bheinn na Faoghla”
- Irish: “Aerpháirc Bheann na Faoghla”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Benbecula”
- Japanese: “ベンベキュラ島”
- Japanese: “ベンベキュラ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Benbecula”
- Persian: “BEB”
- Persian: “EGPL”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بنبکولا”
- Piemontese: “Benbecula Airport”
- Polish: “Binary Exponential Backoff”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Benbecula”
- Russian: “Бенбекула”
- Russian: “Бенбекьюла”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port-adhair Bheinn na Fadhla”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port-adhair Bheinn na Faoghla”
- Swedish: “Benbecula Airport”
- Turkish: “Benbecula Havalimanı”
- Ukrainian: “Бенбекула”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Benbecula”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Dunganichy and Muir of Aird.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Benbecula Golf Course and Tagsa Uibhist Community Garden.
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