Swansea Airport – SWS Wales
Swansea Airport is located in Swansea, Wales, UK. It isin the middle of Gower Peninsula’s Fairwood Common. Its airport code, SWS, stands for Swansea itself. It has a CAA Ordinary License Number P867 allowing flights for public instructions authorized but its license. This also includes passenger public transport. Yet, night flights are not allowed for this license type. By June 1941, this was declared operational as a Royal Air Force station.
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The Swansea Airport is consists of a single terminal building. This building has seats for 35 passengers. Integrated into the terminal building is its control tower. Having two hangars, its fire brigade is CAT 1 and can do CAT 2 on request. It has also two runways – 04/22 and 10/28. Runway 15/33 is used as its taxiway. The airport is mainly for handling private aircraft and light helicopters. This is also used by corporate aircraft such as naval helicopters, the military and police. This is even used by some small aviation companies in conducting parachuting operations, in fixed wing and helicopter pilot training. From the SWS airport, you can visit the nearby cities of Blackwood, Beddau and Barry.
What to Do & Area Attractions
The 3 closest hotels to Swansea Airport are the nearby The Gower Hotel, which is 1.28 miles away from Swansea Airport, The Gower Golf Club that is 2.36 miles away and the Norton House Hotel that is 3.2 miles away. These hotels offer free Wi-Fi and free parking.
Its nearby airport is Cardiff International Airport, which is Wales’ busiest airport. Swansea Airport’s nearby cities include Cardiff, Usk, Whitson and many others for tourists to explore.
