| Campbeltown Airport | |
| Nativename: | Port-adhair Cheann Loch Chille Chiarain |
| Nativename-A: | RAF Machrihanish |
| Nativename-R: | MoD Machrihanish |
| Image2-Width: | 250 |
| Iata: | CAL |
| Icao: | EGEC |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | Machrihanish Airbase Community Company (MACC) |
| Operator: | HIAL (public airport) MACC Developments Ltd. (former airbase) |
| City-Served: | Campbeltown and Isle of Arran |
| Location: | Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute |
| Elevation-F: | 42 |
| Coordinates: | 55.4375°N -5.6881°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Argyll and Bute |
| Pushpin Label: | EGEC |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Argyll and Bute |
| Website: | Campbeltown Airport |
| Metric-Rwy: | Y |
| R1-Number: | 11/29 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,412 |
| R1-Surface: | Grooved asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2022 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 6,112 |
| Stat2-Header: | Passenger change 21-22 |
| Stat2-Data: | 86% |
| Stat3-Header: | Aircraft Movements |
| Stat3-Data: | 1,060 |
| Stat4-Data: | 16% |
| Footnotes: | Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1] Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2] |
Campbeltown Airport (Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Cheann Loch Chille Chiarain) is located at Machrihanish, 3NM west of Campbeltown, near the tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland.
The airport was formerly known as RAF Machrihanish (after the village of Machrihanish) and hosted squadrons of the Royal Air Force and other NATO air forces as well as the United States Marine Corps. The airport is at a strategic point near the Irish Sea, and was used to guard the entrance to the Firth of Clyde where US nuclear submarines were based at Holy Loch and where Royal Navy Trident missile submarines are still based at HMNB Clyde (Faslane Naval Base).
The United States Navy handed the airfield back to the MoD on 30 June 1995, marking the end of its service as a NATO facility since 1960. The airbase was sold to Machrihanish Airbase Community Company (MACC) in May 2012, and two thirds of the runway is leased to Highlands and Islands Airports for Campbeltown Airport.
At, the original runway 11/29 at Campbeltown Airport is the longest of any public airport in Scotland. It was built between 1960 and 1962 as part of a major reconstruction for the airport's role in NATO.
Campbeltown Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P808) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Highlands & Islands Airports Limited)[3]
The following airlines operate regular scheduled flights to and from Campbeltown: