Plannedconfidence medium

Manchester Airport (hybrid digital tower)

Photo of the airport: 320jacko, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Manchester Airport (hybrid digital tower) is a hybrid digital tower: controllers keep the window view and add camera video, so it is not a remote tower. Hybrid digital control tower with camera arrays on Terminal 2 piers; the release says the apron system is due to go live in 2026.

Caveat. Hybrid means controllers keep the window view and add video; it is not a remote tower. Go-live not confirmed.

What the sources say

Hybrid digital control tower with camera arrays on Terminal 2 piers; the release says the apron system is due to go live in 2026.https://www.nats.aero/news/manchester-airport-partners-with-nats-and-searidge-technologies-for-digital-transformation/

Timeline

26 Feb 2025
Announced
2026
Digital apron management due to go live

Connections

Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.

Searidge Technologies NATS

Other sites in United Kingdom

NATS Swanwick Digital Tower Centre London City Airport Cranfield Airport Heathrow Virtual Contingency Facility RNAS Predannack RNAS Culdrose Farnborough Airport (hybrid digital tower) Inverness (HIAL Combined Surveillance Centre)

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At a glance

ICAO: EGCC
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Hybrid digital tower
Vendor: Searidge
Provider: NATS
Status: Planned
Position: 53.349, -2.280

Sources

1 public source: nats.aero.

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