Sligo Airport'Sligo Aiport is located in Strandhill, near Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. The airport is a relatively small regional airport and is only served by Aer Arann to Dublin. It is also the northwest base for the Irish Coastguard. Helicopters fly from here to responsd to distress calls and the area is commonly used for Coastguard training. Private flight training, skydiving and charity jumps are all operated from the airport. A safety issue that is a problem for the airport is that the runway's ends are both just metres from the sea (Sligo Bay), as the peninsula on which it is situated is less than 2 kilometres long. In 2003, when the band Aslan were arriving in Sligo in a private plane, the plane overshot the runway and the nose went into sea, causing distress but no casualties. External link* Official site (http://www.sligoairport.com/)
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