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Farnborough Airport (hybrid digital tower)

Photo of the airport: MilborneOne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Farnborough 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 working position, described as a digital extension of the existing tower.

Caveat. Hybrid, not a remote tower. No go-live confirmation found.

What the sources say

Hybrid digital working position, described as a digital extension of the existing tower.https://www.nats.aero/news/farnborough-airport-goes-digital-with-nats-and-searidge-technologies/

Timeline

3 Oct 2023
Announced

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 Manchester Airport (hybrid digital tower) Inverness (HIAL Combined Surveillance Centre)

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At a glance

ICAO: EGLF
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Hybrid digital tower
Vendor: Searidge
Provider: NATS
Status: Planned
Position: 51.276, -0.776

Sources

1 public source: nats.aero.

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