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Newtownards Airport

Newtownards Aerodrome is a local airfield in , County Down, Northern Ireland, 8.5 NM east of . It offers light aircraft flights, helicopter flights, microlight flights and flight simulator training.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: general aviation airport in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
  • Also known as: “Ards Airfield”, “EGAD”, “Newtownards Aerodrome”, and “Newtownards Airfield”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scrabo Tower and Movilla Abbey.

Photo: Elkay62, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 135 feet high 19th-century lookout tower or folly that stands on Scrabo Hill near in , Northern Ireland. It provides wide views and is a landmark that can be seen from afar.

Church
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
in , , , is believed to have been one of 's and 's most important monasteries. Movilla should not be confused with Moville in County Donegal.

School
is a co-educational, controlled grammar school in , , . The school comprises two parts: the grammar school and the preparatory department.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newtownards and Comber.

Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in , with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".

Town
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in , Northern Ireland. It lies 5 miles south of , at the northern end of . It is situated in the townland of Town Parks, the civil parish of and the historic barony of Castlereagh Lower.

Suburb
Photo: Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as Housing Estate, is the second-biggest housing estate in . It is in the village of , on the outskirts of east .

Newtownards Airport

Latitude
54.58162° or 54° 34′ 54″ north
Longitude
-5.69025° or 5° 41′ 25″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Operator
Ulster Flying Club
ICAO airport code
EGAD
United Nations Location Code
GB NTS
Open location code
9C6PH8J5+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39318185
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
8555869
Wiki­data ID
Q301121
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Satellite Map

Discover Newtownards Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Newtownards Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Newtownards Airport”
  • French: “EGAD”
  • French: “Newtownards Airport”
  • German: “EGAD”
  • German: “Newtownards Airport”
  • Hungarian: “Newtownardsi repülőtér”
  • Indonesian: “EGAD”
  • Irish: “Aerfort Bhaile Nua na hArda”
  • Italian: “EGAD”
  • Italian: “Newtownards Airport”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Newtownards”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه نیوتاون‌اردز”
  • Piemontese: “Newtownards Airport”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Newtownards”
  • Spanish: “EGAD”
  • Spanish: “Newtownards Airport”
  • Swedish: “Newtownards Airport”
  • Turkish: “Newtownards Havalimanı”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Newtownards”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as West Winds and Movilla.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Miles Aircraft Factory and WW2 Rifle Firing Butts.

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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 “Newtownards Airport”. Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.