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London City Airport

Photo of the airport: Alexander Baxevanis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

London City Airport is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Reuters reported the move to remote air traffic control in April 2021.

What the sources say

Reuters reported the move to remote air traffic control in April 2021.https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/ground-control-out-remote-control-london-city-airport-2021-04-29/
Saab names London City as a customer of its digital tower.https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/royal-navy-order-digital-towers-from-saab/

Timeline

2021
Switched to remote ATC (first major airport)

Connections

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

controlled from: NATS Swanwick Digital Tower Centre Saab NATS

Other sites in United Kingdom

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

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At a glance

ICAO: EGLC
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Remote tower
Vendor: Saab
Provider: NATS
Status: Operational
Position: 51.505, 0.055

Sources

2 public sources: ukdefencejournal.org.uk, reuters.com.

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