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Bournemouth Airport (ICAO EGHH, IATA BOH) lies on the edge of Hurn village a few miles north of Bournemouth, on the site of the former RAF Hurn. It offers a single long hard runway with full ILS coverage, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for visiting pilots, alongside a resident flying club and commercial training centre.
Bournemouth Airport, identified by the ICAO code EGHH and IATA code BOH, sits on the edge of Hurn village north of Bournemouth in Dorset. Long known as Hurn Airport and later Bournemouth International Airport, it combines scheduled and charter airline operations with general aviation activity, including the Bournemouth Flying Club and the Bournemouth Commercial Flight Training Centre (BCFT), which give it a lively mixed-traffic character of interest to visiting light aircraft pilots as well as those studying airline operations.
The airport lies in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area, about 4 miles north-northeast of Bournemouth itself and roughly a mile west of the A338, with the M27 and M3 motorways reachable via the A31 to the east and the A35 to the west. It sits at coordinates 50.78N, 1.8425W at an elevation of 33 feet. The nearest other airport of note is Southampton Airport to the east.
Bournemouth has a single physical runway, 08/26, of hard construction and fully lit, with an instrument landing system serving the approach. Runway 26 has a landing distance of 7436 feet, while runway 08 offers 6027 feet, giving ample length for a wide range of aircraft types using the field.
Radio services at Bournemouth comprise Approach on 119.475 MHz, an ATIS broadcast on 121.95 MHz, Ground on 121.7 MHz and Tower on 125.6 MHz. The field is equipped with an ILS to support instrument approaches.
The airport was previously known as Hurn Airport, and before that the site was RAF Hurn during the Second World War era, superseding Christchurch Airfield, which had served Bournemouth before the war. It later traded as Bournemouth International Airport before adopting its current name. Yvonne Pope Sintes, Britain's first female air traffic controller, worked at Bournemouth Airport after qualifying, before moving on to Gatwick and eventually becoming the country's first female commercial airline captain.
Bournemouth Airport was owned and operated by Manchester Airports Group before being acquired by Regional & City Airports in December 2017. Ryanair and TUI Airways are the principal airline users and base aircraft there. General aviation activity continues alongside the airline operations, with the Bournemouth Flying Club providing flight training on site and the Bournemouth Commercial Flight Training Centre offering modern aircraft simulators for commercial pilot training.
