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St. Just (Land's End)

Major
Also known as: Land's End Aerodrome / Land's End Airport / St. Just Aerodrome
County: Cornwall
Current Status: Aviation
Date: Opened September 1937
Current Use: Active
Used By: Civil
Landing Surface Types: Unpaved, later paved/unpaved (2014)
Aircraft Roles: Airliner (main role) / Army aviation / General aviation

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/07/2013):

  • St. Just Library
  • St. Just-in-Penwith Town Council

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 16 Sqn
  • BEA
  • BEA Helicopters
  • Isles of Scilly Skybus
  • Lancashire Aircraft Corporation
  • Lands End GC
  • Land's End Gliding and Flying Club
  • Melba Airways
  • Murray Chown Aviation 
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The control tower at St. Just, 22 April 2008.

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View of St. Just, 23 June 2009.

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Aircraft Parking Stand No 3 at St. Just, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Looking south-east from the runway 12 threshold, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Looking south-west from the runway 25 threshold, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Looking south-west from the runway 25 threshold, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Looking south from the runway 16 threshold, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Control tower and passenger terminal at St. Just, 30 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Control tower and passenger terminal at St. Just, 30 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Looking south across the airfield, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Hangar at St. Just, 25 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

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Hangar at St. Just, 30 March 2018. © Richard Flagg

Land's End Airport, 1962. Courtesy of British Pathé

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