Papa Westray Airport

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2013}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Papa Westray Airport

| nativename =

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| image = Terminal building at Papa Westray airport - geograph.org.uk - 285711.jpg

| image-width = 250

| IATA = PPW

| ICAO = EGEP

| type = Public

| owner =

| operator = Orkney Islands Council

| city-served = Papa Westray

| location =

| elevation-f = 91

| elevation-m = 28

| coordinates = {{coord|59|21|06|N|002|54|01|W|type:airport_region:GB-ORK|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = Scotland Orkney#United Kingdom

| pushpin_label = EGEP

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Orkney

| website = [https://www.orkney.com/plan/getting-here orkney.com]

| metric-rwy = Y

| r1-number = 04/22

| r1-length-f = 1,729

| r1-length-m = 527

| r1-surface = Graded hardcore

| r2-number = 07/25

| r2-length-f = 1,096

| r2-length-m = 334

| r2-surface = Graded hardcore

| r3-number = 18/36

| r3-length-f = 1,125

| r3-length-m = 343

| r3-surface = Grass

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| footnotes = Sources: UK AIP at NATS{{cite web|url=http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=115&Itemid=164.html|title=NATS – AIS – Home|access-date=2 February 2015}}

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Papa Westray Airport {{Airport codes|PPW|EGEP}} is located {{convert|22|NM|abbr=on|lk=in}} north of Kirkwall Airport on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The facility is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service, to Westray Airport. The distance is {{convert|2.8|km|abbr=on}} and the scheduled flight time, including taxiing, is two minutes.{{cite web|url=http://www.westraypapawestray.co.uk/getting-here/index.php|title=Getting Here|access-date=2 February 2015}}

Papa Westray Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P542) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Orkney Islands Council). The aerodrome is not licensed for night use.{{Cite web |url=http://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/Standard_Content/Commercial_industry/Airports/Aerodrome_licences/20171201OrdinaryLicencesAndMapsPtoT.pdf |title=Civil Aviation Authority Aerodrome Ordinary Licences |access-date=6 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406163934/http://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/Standard_Content/Commercial_industry/Airports/Aerodrome_licences/20171201OrdinaryLicencesAndMapsPtoT.pdf |archive-date=6 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}

In March 2025 The Economist sought out readers to share their favourite airports with the publication. Stephanie Mitchell brought PPW to readers' attention by claiming that "...when it comes to most wonderful airports the honour must go to one or both of Papa Westray in Orkney or Barra in the Hebrides. No danger of feeling like a sheep in the crowd in either one, although either probably offers close proximity to actual sheep."{{Cite news |title=Our readers’ favourite airports |url=https://www.economist.com/letters/2025/03/28/our-readers-favourite-airports |access-date=2025-03-29 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}