London Stansted Airport

passenger airport at Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England
Airport international_airport Q8709
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Summary

London Stansted Airport is an international airport[1].

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Stansted Mountfitchet[2]
  • Country: United Kingdom[3]
  • Instance of: commercial traffic aerodrome[4]
  • Owned by: Manchester Airports Group[5]
  • Operator: Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited[6]
  • Named after: London[7], Stansted Mountfitchet[8]
  • IATA airport code: STN[9]
  • ICAO airport code: EGSS[10]
  • Scheduled service destination: İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport[11]
  • Runway: 04/22[12]
  • Coordinate location: 51.885, 0.235[13]
  • Official website: https://www.stanstedairport.com[14]
  • Place served by transport hub: London[15]
  • Replaces: RAF Stansted Mountfitchet[16]
  • Date of official opening: 1942[17]
  • Native label: London Stansted Airport[18]
  • Short name: Londres-Stansted[19], London Stansted[20], Londra-Stansted[21]
  • Elevation above sea level: 106[22]
  • Aerodrome reference point: 51.885, 0.235[23]
  • Patronage: 90,611[24], 101,600[25], 112,095[26], 93,624[27], 4590[28], 7994[29], 13,629[30], 146,045[31], 218,794[32], 490,896[33], 492,316[34], 310,267[35], 172,931[36], 199,058[37]

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Class ancestry

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  1. 5w 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. 9w 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. 16w 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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