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Cranfield Airport

Photo of the airport: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cranfield Airport is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Wikipedia, citing Cranfield University, gives 13 December 2018 as the opening date of the UK's first digital air traffic control centre.

What the sources say

Wikipedia, citing Cranfield University, gives 13 December 2018 as the opening date of the UK's first digital air traffic control centre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_and_virtual_tower
Airport Technology feature on the Cranfield digital tower.https://www.airport-technology.com/features/cranfield-digital-atc-tower/

Timeline

13 Dec 2018
Digital ATC centre opened (first in the UK)

Connections

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Saab

Other sites in United Kingdom

NATS Swanwick Digital Tower Centre London City 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: EGTC
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Remote tower
Vendor: Saab
Provider: Cranfield University
Status: Operational
Position: 52.072, -0.617

Sources

2 public sources: en.wikipedia.org, airport-technology.com.

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