SYYEGPO

Stornoway Airport

Stornoway, Western Isles, United Kingdom · Europe

Europe Europe/London

4direct destinations

2airlines

2runways

2,200 mLongest runway

Stornoway Airport (IATA: SYY, ICAO: EGPO) (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Steòrnabhaigh) is an airfield located 2 miles (4 km) east of the town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland.

Location

58.216°N, 6.331°O · 8 m s. n. m. (26 ft)

General data

CountryUnited Kingdom

CityStornoway, Western Isles

IATA codeSYY

ICAO codeEGPO

Coordinates58.216°N, 6.331°O

Elevation8 m s. n. m. (26 ft)

Time zoneEurope/London

Runways2

Longest runway2,200 m

OperatorHighlands and Islands Airports

Direct destinations4

Official website

Runways · 2

18/36

Length2,200 m7,218 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

06/24

Length1,000 m3,281 ft

Width23 m75 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 2 Official publication

Tower

119.480TWR · APP · INFO

ATIS (automatic information)

115.100VOR

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Frequencies from the official publication: UK AIP (NATS), AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.

History

The airfield was opened in 1937, and was then used mainly for military purposes. The Royal Air Force had an air base (RAF Stornoway) there during the Second World War and also from 1972 until 1998, when it was a NATO forward operating base. During the Cold War, from 1960 to 1983, the airfield was the home of 112 Signals Unit Stornoway (RAF). NATO aircraft used the airport for missions over the North Atlantic and for stopovers en route to Greenland and the United States.

Nowadays the airfield is mainly used for domestic passenger services. The Royal Mail have a daily mail flight. Bristow Helicopters operate helicopters equipped for search and rescue, on behalf of His Majesty's Coastguard. There are privately owned light aircraft based at the airport. The airport also has been used for cross-wind training of large jets, including the Airbus A350.

Stornoway Airport is owned by HIAL, a company controlled by the Scottish Government.

Airlines operating here · 2

Other airlines with direct routes

Loganair Hebridean Air Services

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Stephen Branley · CC BY-SA 2.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Stornoway Airport (SYY). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SYY

MLA

“Stornoway Airport (SYY).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SYY. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Stornoway Airport (SYY). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SYY (Accessed: 16 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_syy,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Stornoway Airport (SYY)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SYY},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SYY}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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