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RAF Cranwell (EGYD)

Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom · ICAO EGYD

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RAF Cranwell (EGYD)0826011906240321
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
ICAO code
EGYD
IATA code
None in our airport list
Elevation
218 ft
Longest runway
6,831 ft (08/26)
Runways
4
Size class
Medium
Position
53.0273, -0.4931

About EGYD

RAF Cranwell (EGYD) is a medium airport in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Our airport list gives it no IATA code. Its 4 runways are 08/26, 01/19, 06/24 and 03/21. The longest, 08/26, is 6,831 ft. Of these, 2 hard and 2 soft. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 36 taxiway segments and 6 aprons. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, CWL has 5 routes through EGYD. Its most frequent links are EGCN (EGCN), Cardiff (CWL) and Darlington (MME).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
08 / 266,831 ft147 ftHardLit
01 / 194,803 ft147 ftHardLit
06 / 243,927 ft98 ftSoftNot lit
03 / 213,619 ft98 ftSoftNot lit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

    Also flying here, shown by airline code: CWL.

    Connected airports

    Nearby airports with maps

    The closest airports that have a map and a page here.

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    Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.