Shannon
Limerick, IE. Used as a refuelling stop on the Atlantic.
- Code
- SNN
- Position
- 52.702, -8.925
- Runway
- 2,100 m paved
- Capacity
- About 500 movements a week, 8 stands, terminal generation 1
- Weather
- Worst month loses about 1.8% 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). First scheduled landplane Atlantic services stopped here from October 1945; duty free airport from 1947 (Wikipedia, Shannon Airport, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Airport). Runway length is an estimate.