Gibraltar Airport
Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Gibraltar Airport
A unique airstrip crossing Gibraltar's main road.
- ›The runway crosses Winston Churchill Avenue, requiring road traffic to stop when aircraft are in operation.
- ›The airport was originally built during World War II in 1939 and expanded using rubble from tunnelling operations.
- ›Gibraltar Airport serves dual civilian and Royal Air Force military purposes.
- ›The airport's runway is approximately 1,680 metres long, limiting operations to smaller commercial aircraft.
- ›Its proximity to Spain led to decades of cross-border access disputes, with Spain closing the land border from 1969 to 1982.
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Gibraltar International Airport, officially Joshua Hassan Gibraltar International Airport, and previously known as North Front Airport, is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The runway and aerodrome is owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as RAF Gibraltar. Civilian operators use the civilian-operated terminal. National Air Traffic Services (NATS) hold the contract for provision of air navigation services at the airport.
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