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Top 20 airports / most visited airports / how many different airports have you landed at

Excluding home base:
KSDL Scottsdale Airport 22
LFGG BELFORT CHAUX 21
LFST STRASBOURG ENTZHEIM 13
LFGA COLMAR HOUSSEN 10
EPPO POZNAN/LAWICA Pologne 9
KIWA Phoenix-Mesa-Gateway Airport 8
LFSB BALE-MULHOUSE 7
LFSM MONTBELIARD COURCELLES 7
LF6821 Maseveaux Oberbrück 6
KMYF Montgomery Field 5
KFFZ Falcon Field 4
LFMX CHATEAU ARNOUX SAINT AUBAN 4
LFGY SAINT DIE REMOMEIX 4
EDJA MEMMINGEN 4
LFQW VESOUL FROTEY 4
KDVT Phoenix Deer Valley Airport 4
LFSH HAGUENAU 3
LEJR JEREZ 3
KSDM Brown Field Municipal Airport 3
LFPL LOGNES EMERAINVILLE 3

Airfields with landings: 122
Airfields visited (landing or takeoff): 170
The difference comes from the fact that I often alternate legs on voyages with another pilot, so you either get the takeoff or the landing, but rarely both.

Visited airfields (170):

Visited French départements:

The images clearly show further potential.

Last Edited by Rwy20 at 05 Nov 21:06

Tough one to compile. I just managed to put a graphic of sorts together using Skyvector abusing it’s flight plan function. These are the flights I’ve done since I came back to flying and with the Mooney.

All in all, I’d have to bet (don’t have all my figures with me) that the airports most landed at are in that order

LSZH (today’s homebase)
LSZR (former homebase)
LSZB (training base for a while)

Destinations: Again, Guestimate but probably pretty accurate. It’s not as if I have a lot of them to show for myself…

most flown to:
LSZG
LSPV
LFMV
EDJA
LOWS
EDRY
LFMN (when it still was accessible for light GA)

The ones I remember most fondly:

LFMV (great city, lovely airport, nicely reachable)
LOWS (good for GA, easy to work with (apart from in Winter on the weekends)
LDRI (nice, empty, cheap)
LYBE (cheap, very nice staff, very cheap avgas)
LBPD (cheap, great staff, customs)
LBPR (farthest i’ve ever flown to, lovely airfield, cheap)

most memorable:

LSZH-LFLY-LFMP-LFMV-LSGG in one day (C150)

LSZH-EDDF-LSZH (C150) (and the landing fee was about 5 DM)

LSZR-LSGG-LFMT-LEGR-LEAP-LFMV-LSGG-LSZR (C150, first flying holiday)

LSZH-LOWK-LYBE-LBPD-LBPR-LBPD-LYBE-LSZH (M20, Bulgarian trip)

Last Edited by Mooney_Driver at 05 Nov 23:31
LSZH(work) LSZF (GA base), Switzerland

67 airports visited, 29 in Poland

Last Edited by loco at 06 Nov 07:07
LPFR, Poland

Fly310 wrote:

LTORA* LÅNGTORA 55

Now ESVL!

ESKC (Uppsala/Sundbro), Sweden

Hmm. We used to have a competition for all club members. The pilot who could “collect” most airports during a year got a price (don’t remember what it was, a couple of free hours rent or something).

But top 20 airports ? I’m not sure I even have 20

The elephant is the circulation
ENVA ENOP ENMO, Norway

Since the beginning of 2014:

EGBJ Gloucester – 28 (largely IR training)
EGTF Fairoaks – 7
EDDG Münster – 6
EGKA Shoreham – 6
EGBP Kemble – 6
EKVG Vagar – 5
LSGL Lausanne – 5
EGZZ Great Massingham – 4
LOWS Salzburg – 4
EGHR Goodwood – 4
EGMC Southend – 4
EDVK Kassel – 4
LFBL Limoges – 4
LFAT Le Touqet – 4
EBOS Ostend – 4
EGPK Prestwick -4
EGTE Exeter – 4
EGKH Headcorn – 4
EGNH Blackpool – 3
EGPO Stornoway – 3

EGEO

I finally could not resist adding them up… so with Justine’s help and with Colm doing the Excel stuff, and excluding my base, I have

and 150 different airports, of which 50% were visited just once.

Funny to see EGCW (Welshpool) in the list, where I have not been for years. EGKB (Biggin Hill) is a frequent diversion for Shoreham; also used to rent a hangar there for maintenance. KCHD was the FAA IR in 2006 – 2 weeks in Arizona.

Most of my foreign trips went to airports which are just off the top 20.

Total flights 1307. Total hours ~ 2300.

A huge number of landings at my base EGKA (853) because I do a lot of local flights for fun, to take someone up for a flight, for instrument currency without a land-away, etc. And those flights would not be practical in a bigger faster plane, which is why I haven’t got one.

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Here it is for me.

My home base is EIWT Weston, which was visited 186 times.

Outside my home base here is the top 21 (21 not 20 as there are a number on 3 visit).

EIDW Dublin 73
EIIM Inishmor 20
EIWF Waterford 17
EINC Newcastle 14
EGEO Oban 10
EIAB Abbeyshrule 10
EISG Sligo 10
EIKN Ireland West (Knock) 8
EGEL Coll 6
EGEY Colonsay 6
EGAB Enniskillen 5
EIKH Kilrush 5
EGCK Caernarfon 4
LFAT Le Touquet 4
EGGP Liverpool 3
EGJJ Jersey 3
EGTE Exeter 3
EIKY Kerry 3
EIMN Inishmaan 3
Glenforsa 3
LFRD Dinard 3

In total, I’ve 522 landings and 121 airports.

So almost 1 in four landings is at an airport that I haven’t visited before.

EIWT Weston, Ireland

I don’t know which airports I have visited the most, but in my mind there are certain airfields that are memorable for all sorts of reasons, and they would be my “top” airfields.

So places like Kai Tak, Cardington, Narsarsuaq, Debden, Annecy, Scheferville, Gatwick, Netherthorpe, Craiova, Reykjavik, Nottingham, and loads more are what make me smile and remember good times and good friends

Darley Moor, Gamston (UK)


this years flights which are my total flights with my UL since leaving gliding on pause for a while.

Last Edited by turillo1986 at 07 Nov 10:04
LILC, Italy
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