London Heathrow
London, GB.
- Code
- LHR
- Position
- 51.470, -0.454
- Runway
- 2,804 m paved
- Capacity
- About 1,500 movements a week, 22 stands, terminal generation 1
- Weather
- Worst month loses about 1.9% of flights
- Confidence
- estimated (to be verified). Coordinates agree with published sources to within about 2.5 km. Other figures are estimates unless the evidence below says otherwise.
Source: Coordinates from public geographic knowledge (rounded). Opened for civil use 31 May 1946; three runways by 1947, the longest 9,200 ft (Wikipedia, History of Heathrow Airport, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Heathrow_Airport). Passenger traffic reached one million in December 1953 on the same page. Terminal was army tents until 1955. Capacity figures are estimates.