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Leeds Bradford Airport (EGNM) is Yorkshire's principal airport, sited at Yeadon on the northern fringe of the City of Leeds, roughly midway between Leeds and Bradford. It offers a single long, hard-surfaced runway equipped with ILS on both approaches, making it a useful and visually distinctive destination for VFR pilots operating in the busy Leeds/Bradford conurbation. As a licensed, ATC-controlled field handling scheduled airline traffic, visiting light aircraft should expect to operate under instruction from air traffic control.
Leeds Bradford Airport, ICAO code EGNM, serves the cities of Leeds and Bradford along with the wider Yorkshire region including York, Wakefield and Harrogate. It is a licensed CAA Public Use Aerodrome (Licence Number P800) permitting both passenger transport and flight training, and remains the largest airport in Yorkshire. For a simulator pilot, its single long ILS-equipped runway set among the hills to the north-west of Leeds, combined with regular scheduled jet traffic, makes it an engaging controlled-airspace destination.
The airport lies at Yeadon, within the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, about 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Leeds city centre and about 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Bradford city centre. It is a controlled aerodrome with its own approach, tower and delivery services, sitting within controlled airspace associated with the field.
The airport has a single physical runway, 14/32, both hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 32 has a landing distance of 6486 ft, while runway 14 has a landing distance of 6356 ft, and both ends are served by an ILS.
Air traffic services are provided on Delivery 121.805 MHz, Tower 120.305 MHz, and Approach on 123.38 MHz and 134.58 MHz, with an ATIS broadcast on 118.025 MHz. The ILS serving runway 32/14 operates on 110.9 MHz.
Leeds Bradford Airport opened on 17 October 1931 as Leeds and Bradford Municipal Aerodrome, also known as Yeadon Aerodrome, a name still used locally today. During the Second World War the aircraft manufacturer Avro built a shadow factory, the Leeds Bradford Airport Depot, immediately north of the airfield; at the time it was the largest free-standing structure in Europe, and around 5,515 aircraft were produced there before the factory closed in December 1946. Civil flying resumed the following year, 1947.
The airport operates under CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence Number P800, which permits both scheduled passenger transport and flight training. It handles scheduled services to numerous European and a limited number of domestic destinations, and in December 2025 the Spanish airport operator Aena acquired a majority stake in the airport.
