Wick Airport
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Wick John O' Groats Airport (IATA: WIC, ICAO: EGPC) (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Inbhir Ùige Taigh Iain Ghròt) is located one nautical mile (two kilometres) north of the town of Wick, at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. It is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport provides commercial air travel connections for Caithness, with scheduled services to Aberdeen Airport and, until early 2020, Edinburgh. It remains regularly used by helicopters servicing local offshore oil operations and the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm. It also serves as a stop-over for light aircraft ferry flights between Europe and North America via Iceland. The airport also operates an out of hours call-out service for air ambulances, coastguard and police flights.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner/Operator | HIAL | ||||||||||
Serves | Wick, Caithness | ||||||||||
Location | Wick, Scotland, UK | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 126 ft / 38 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 58°27′32″N 003°05′35″W | ||||||||||
Website | hial.co.uk | ||||||||||
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