London Stansted Airport

passenger airport at Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England
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Summary

London Stansted Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,780 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Stansted Mountfitchet[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: commercial traffic aerodrome[5]
  • Owned by: Manchester Airports Group[6]
  • Operator: Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited[7]
  • Named after: London[8], Stansted Mountfitchet[9]
  • IATA airport code: STN[10]
  • ICAO airport code: EGSS[11]
  • Commons category: London Stansted Airport[12]
  • Scheduled service destination: İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport[13]
  • Runway: 04/22[14]
  • Coordinate location: 51.885, 0.235[15]
  • Official website: https://www.stanstedairport.com[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:London Stansted Airport[17]
  • Place served by transport hub: London[18]
  • Described at URL: http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php.html[19]
  • Replaces: RAF Stansted Mountfitchet[20]
  • Date of official opening: 1942[21]
  • Native label: London Stansted Airport[22]
  • Short name: Londres-Stansted[23], London Stansted[24], Londra-Stansted[25]
  • Elevation above sea level: 106[26]
  • Aerodrome reference point: 51.885, 0.235[27]
  • Patronage: 90,611[28], 101,600[29], 112,095[30], 93,624[31], 4590[32], 7994[33], 13,629[34], 146,045[35], 218,794[36], 490,896[37], 492,316[38], 310,267[39], 172,931[40], 199,058[41]

Why It Matters

London Stansted Airport has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55346|batch #55346]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 8w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Replaces → RAF Stansted Mountfitchet
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Airport", "EGSS"], Entity["WeatherStation", "EGSS"]
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["WeatherStation", "EGSS"], Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/54526144|EGSS (#54526144)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog"
  3. 15w ago · Militum professio scriniarii · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14452 → 920GSTN1
    Different from → —
    Official website → https://www.stanstedairport.com
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.stanstedairport.com"
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