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Anglesey Airport, otherwise known by its military designation as part of RAF Valley, lay at Llanfair-yn-Neubwll on the Isle of Anglesey and for over fifteen years provided a civilian air link to Cardiff before scheduled services ceased and the site was confirmed closed by May 2024. For the simulator pilot it remains of interest chiefly for its long, ILS-equipped former RAF runway and its dual military-civil heritage on the north Wales coast.
Anglesey Airport (ICAO EGOV, IATA VLY), also known as Maes Awyr Môn, was a small civil airport sharing its site and infrastructure with RAF Valley at Llanfair-yn-Neubwll on the Isle of Anglesey. Opened in May 2007 to provide a subsidised air link to Cardiff, it was owned by the Isle of Anglesey County Council on land leased from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation and contract-managed by Bilfinger Europa Facility Management Limited. It is of interest to a simulator pilot as a coastal north Wales field with a substantial former RAF runway and ILS approach, now disused as a civil facility.
The airfield lies at Llanfair-yn-Neubwll on the Isle of Anglesey, less than two miles from the A55 North Wales Expressway that links Holyhead and Chester. It occupies part of the RAF Valley site, an active military station, and the nearest railway station is Valley, with Arriva bus services once connecting the airport to Valley and Holyhead.
The field has three physical runways. The longest, 13/31, is 7,508 ft of lit hard surface, with an ILS serving runway 13. Runway 01/19 is 5,162 ft of lit hard surface. The third runway, 07/25, is also lit and hard-surfaced but shows differing lengths for each direction, 2,899 ft on runway 07 and 3,565 ft on runway 25, likely reflecting differing declared distances rather than a true difference in physical runway length. Field elevation is 26 ft.
Recorded frequencies for the field are APP on 134.35 MHz, ATIS on 120.725 MHz, GND on 122.1 MHz, RDR (radar) on 125.225 MHz, and TWR on 122.1 MHz. An ILS is associated with runway 13.
The airport grew out of plans put forward in early 2006 by the National Assembly for Wales to establish a subsidised weekday air service between Anglesey and Cardiff Airport, twelve miles west of the Welsh capital, intended to support the economy of Anglesey and north Wales. The twice-daily service began in May 2007, with a journey time of around one hour, and was operated over the years by Links Air, Citywing, and Eastern Airways on behalf of Flybe. The single-storey passenger terminal, completed in 2007 and designed by MAP architects at a cost of £1,000,000, was built off-site by the construction company Yorkon and transported to the airport once finished. When operational, the airport's principal stakeholders were RAF Valley, the Welsh Government, the Isle of Anglesey County Council and Cardiff Airport. The Cardiff route was suspended in March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in June 2022 the Welsh Government announced it would no longer subsidise the service, which was withdrawn permanently. In March 2018 flights between Anglesey and Cardiff were suspended following the fatal crash of a Red Arrows Hawk aircraft, with domestic flights diverted to Hawarden Airport in Flintshire and coaches used to transport passengers between Valley and Hawarden. In May 2024, in response to a freedom of information request, Isle of Anglesey County Council confirmed that the airport had closed.
Anglesey Airport is disused as a civil aerodrome, having been confirmed closed by Isle of Anglesey County Council in May 2024 following the permanent withdrawal of the Cardiff air link in 2022. The site remains part of RAF Valley, an active military station, but no scheduled or civil flying operations continue from the former passenger facility.
