Perth Airport (Scotland)

Perth Airport Perth (Scone) Airport
IATA: PSL – ICAO: EGPT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		ACS Aviation Ltd
Serves		Perth, Scotland
Elevation AMSL		397 ft / 121 m
Coordinates		56°26′21″N 003°22′20″W
Website		www.perthairport.eu/
Map
EGPT Location in Perth and Kinross
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
03/21	853	2,799	Asphalt
09/27	609	1,998	Asphalt
15/33	620	2,034	Grass
Sources: UK AIP at NATS

Perth Airport (IATA: PSL, ICAO: EGPT) is a general aviation airport located at New Scone, 3 NM (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northeast of Perth, Scotland. The airport used by private and business aircraft, and for pilot training. There are no commercial scheduled flights from the airport.

Perth Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P823) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Morris Leslie Limited).

History

Above a Jetsream, G-NFLC, arrives to be used as an instructional airframe by AST. In the background is the original hangar 1, which dates back to the 1930s.

The airport opened in 1936 as Scone Aerodrome. A flight training school, training military pilots, was established by Airwork Ltd shortly after the airport was opened. Before the war a number of scheduled airline services operated from Perth to various domestic locations. After the war Airwork moved into civilian pilot training.

By 1960 Airwork acquired Air Service Training (AST) an engineering training school, which it relocated from the south of England to the airport. The whole operation took on the AST name. AST gained a world wide reputation for aviation training, being known as Britain's Air University. Students of more than 100 countries have been trained at Perth. Following a worldwide downturn in aviation, AST pulled out of pilot training in 1996. The site was then bought by Morris Leslie Ltd.

Perth Airport remains Scotland's main airport for general aviation and is the base of the Scottish Aero Club which was founded in 1927. The airport is home to flight training organisations providing, private and commercial fixed and rotary winged flight training, micro light and autogyro training. The site is also home to an aircraft maintenance company and has numerous other non aviation related businesses.

AST, which is now part of Perth College, retains a presence at the airport and continues to offer aeronautical engineering courses. AST has recently announced a returned to Airline Pilot training in 2011.

Perth Airport Air Traffic Control Tower.

References

• Allan, James (2002). Wings Over Scotland. Tervor. ISBN 0-9538191-1-6
• Scottish Aero Club
• Air Service Training

External links

• Perth Airport
• Perth Airport Webcam and Weather
• Perth Airport Operator