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Wick John O Groats Airport

Wick Airport

EGPC · WIC

1933-

UK Wick, Highlands and Islands, Scotland

58.454444, -3.088681 · 127 feet
Location C/N Tracking

Wick Airport, B=, Staxigoe, Highland, Scotland, KW1 4JS, United Kingdom

Nearby Locations

Km
Wick GBWIC 1.5 176°
Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm UK53 25.3 152°
NLB Stroma Lighthouse helipad SCO-228 26.8 356°
NLB Pentland Skerries High Lighthouse helipad SCO-169 27.9 020°
Jacky 30.7 168°
Beatrice Bravo platform BBF 34.3 173°
Established to the north of Wick as a private airport in May 1933 to link Caithness to the Highlands and Islands, it became an RAF Coastal Command base in 1939. It returned to civilian use in 1947.