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Dundee Airport (EGPN) lies on reclaimed land beside the Firth of Tay, close to the heart of Dundee, and is the nearest airport to the championship golf courses of St Andrews, Gleneagles and Carnoustie. Operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, it offers a single hard runway with ILS approach and a long, sometimes turbulent history of scheduled and charter services. For the visiting VFR pilot it combines an estuary-side location with distinctive bridge and waterfront landmarks that make it easy to identify from the air.
Dundee Airport sits immediately alongside the Firth of Tay on the western edge of the city of Dundee, Scotland. It is operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) and today serves as a base for Loganair services as well as general aviation traffic. Its appeal to visiting pilots lies partly in its compact urban setting and partly in its proximity to some of Scotland's most famous golf destinations, which make it a popular arrival point for private and charter flights during major tournaments.
The airport is built on land reclaimed from the Firth of Tay and lies on Riverside Drive on the western fringe of Dundee city centre. It is close to the city's waterfront and within easy reach of the Tay road and rail bridges. The field also serves the wider Angus and Perth and Kinross area, and its location near the coast of the Firth of Tay gives it a distinctive setting for pilots approaching from the east or west along the estuary.
Dundee has a single physical runway, 09/27, of 4565 feet with a hard surface. The runway is lit and equipped with an ILS on runway 09.
Pilots can expect to work Dundee on APP 122.905 MHz, TWR 122.905 MHz and ATIS 119.33 MHz. The airfield has an ILS approach available on runway 09.
The Firth of Tay and its road and rail bridges are prominent landmarks for pilots routing towards the airfield, with the airport itself sited directly on the reclaimed waterfront land beside the estuary. Dundee's city centre and waterfront, including the distinctive V&A Dundee building, lie close to the approach and provide a useful visual cue when inbound from the east.
Dundee Airport opened in 1963 on land reclaimed from the Firth of Tay, initially with a 900 metre grass runway. The first scheduled air service began on 5 July 1966 to Glasgow, with feeder services to Edinburgh and Prestwick following a fortnight later. These services ceased in October 1967 after operator British Eagle reported losses, and a change in control of Dundee City Council saw the airport closed and its land used by Dundee University as playing fields, before it reopened when political control changed back. The grass runway was replaced by a 1,100 metre tarmac runway in the 1970s and later extended to its current length in the 1990s. The airport was granted customs airport status on 16 April 1982, and runway edge lights were added in 1983. The present terminal opened in 1997, opened by the then EU transport commissioner Neil Kinnock. Over subsequent decades the airport saw a changing roster of operators, including Air Ecosse services to Aberdeen, Carlisle, Manchester and Esbjerg using Short 330 and Short 360 aircraft, seasonal charters to Jersey and Majorca, and scheduled services to Manchester, London City and other destinations under operators including Business Air, British Midland Regional, ScotAirways, CityJet and FlyWhoosh. Loganair took over the London Stansted route in 2014 following the withdrawal of CityJet, and became an independent airline in September 2017. Tayside Aviation operated a training facility and engineering workshop at the airport, supplemented by a maintenance hangar built in 1982, until it ceased trading on 20 April 2023.
Dundee Airport is operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited and remains an active regional airport. As of early 2024 Loganair operates services from Dundee to London Heathrow, Kirkwall and Sumburgh using ATR 42-500 aircraft. The airport had, until its closure in April 2023, hosted Tayside Aviation's training and engineering operations, which had previously accounted for a substantial share of the airfield's light aircraft movements.
