United Kingdom · elevation 811 ft AMSL
· 50.9672, -2.1536
Compton Abbas Aerodrome (Shaftesbury, Dorset) is an airport with the ICAO code EGHA. Country: United Kingdom. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Shaftesbury, Dorset. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the EG prefix, which marks airports in United Kingdom. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 50°58'02"N, 2°09'13"W, at an elevation of 811 ft (247 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/London.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 | 80° | 799 m (2,621 ft) | 30 m (98 ft) | grass |
| 26 | 260° |
The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.
Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Compton Abbas Aerodrome (Shaftesbury, Dorset) has one runway: 08/26 - 799 m long (2,621 ft), 30 m wide, grass surface.
All runways have a grass surface, which distinguishes this site from airports with a paved runway.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 08/26 on 80° and 260° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.
For the 08/26 axis, wind from the south (around 170°) or from the north (around 350°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 80° or 260° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
Weather reports for Compton Abbas Aerodrome (Shaftesbury, Dorset) are published under the ICAO code EGHA. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.
The decoder breaks the EGHA report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.
Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for EGHA, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/London zone is GMT+00:00 in winter and GMT+01:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Henstridge Airfield (Templecombe, Somerset) (EGHS, 14 km), Old Sarum Airfield (Salisbury, Wiltshire) (EGLS, 30 km), Bournemouth Airport (EGHH, 30 km). When no report is available for EGHA, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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