Kilkenny Airport

Kilkenny Airport

Control Tower at Kilkenny Airport
IATA: KKY[1] – ICAO: EIKK
Summary
Airport type Private Licence
Operator Kilkenny Airport
Location Kilkenny
Elevation AMSL 300 ft / 91 m
Coordinates 52°39′03″N 007°17′46″W / 52.65083°N 7.29611°W / 52.65083; -7.29611 (Kilkenny Airport)Coordinates: 52°39′03″N 007°17′46″W / 52.65083°N 7.29611°W / 52.65083; -7.29611 (Kilkenny Airport)
Website kilkennyairport.ie/
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 930 3,051 Grass

Kilkenny Airport (IATA: KKY, ICAO: EIKK) is an airport located 1.5 NM (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) west of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny, Ireland. The aerodrome was founded in 1963 by John Hehir, Martin Mulhall, Patrick Nolan and Edward Stallard. All founding members were active pilots and natives of Kilkenny.

The aerodrome was first licensed by the Department of Transport and Power on the 30th April 1965. The aerodrome has remained licensed each year since first licence issue. The current licence holder is Irish Skydiving Club Limited. The aerodrome consisted originally of two grass runways, but in 1976, this was reduced to a single runway (09/27) and the main runway was extended to 930 meters. It is the longest privately licensed runway in Ireland. It is an ICAO Category 2 Runway.

There is a parachute club and flying club based at the aerodrome and the aerodrome facilitates private domestic aircraft and private international flights, mainly from the UK. There are a number of private light aircraft based at the aerodrome.

Kilkenny Airport is home of the Kinair Air Rally, which ran every year for 25 years and was organised by Mr Patrick Nolan.

Kilkenny Airport was funded each year by Kilkenny County Council from 1976 to 2007. These funds assisted with the development of the airport and subsidised the operating costs of the airport. Kilkenny County Council has supported the development of Kilkenny Airport and the aerodrome has been specifically stated in the Kilkenny County Development Plan to support its development plan since 1994 to current plan (2014–2020)

Kilkenny airport features in the funniest radio comedy ever 'Cabin Pressure', [2]written by John Finnemore and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The relevant episode is called 'Uskerty'. The plot is too comlicated to explain, but suffice to say that as ever it features the idiot air steward, Arthur, a truck full of geese one of which swallows an irreplaceable ring resulting in the need to send all the geese through the metal detector. - best thing is to purchase the whole series.

References

  1. ↑ "Airline and Airport Code Search". IATA. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ↑ BBC radio comedies

Cabin Pressure - BBC Radio comedy about a one plane 'airdot' ('you can't put one plane in a line') MJN (my jet now) airline run by Carolyn, employing her idiot son Arthur as the steward, a pilot Douglas who is paid and Captain Martin Crief who is not paid because he is so desperate to be an airline captain that he will work for nothing.


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