Reference Data

Nearest Airport

Find the airports nearest to a caller-provided latitude/longitude, sorted by great-circle (haversine) distance with distance_km on each result. Coordinates are input only — never stored or logged. Optional radius_km, max_results (1-50, default 10) and type filter.

get/api/nearest-airport

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.freightutils.com
  • URL: https://www.freightutils.com/api/nearest-airport
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

latnumber required

Latitude in decimal degrees (-90 to 90).

lonnumber required

Longitude in decimal degrees (-180 to 180).

radius_kmnumber

Optional maximum distance in kilometres.

max_resultsinteger

Maximum results to return (1-50, default 10).

type'large_airport' | 'medium_airport' | 'small_airport' | 'heliport' | 'closed' | 'seaplane_base'

Optional airport type filter. Without it, closed airfields are left out; type=closed lists them.

Response

Nearest airports, ascending by distance_km.

countinteger required
disclaimerstring
metaobject

Echo of the query (latitude, longitude, radius_km, max_results, type) + source.

Example response

{
  "count": 5,
  "results": [
    {
      "ident": "EGLL",
      "iata_code": "LHR",
      "name": "London Heathrow Airport",
      "type": "large_airport",
      "municipality": "London",
      "region": "England",
      "country": "GB",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "latitude": 51.470748,
      "longitude": -0.459909,
      "elevation_ft": 83,
      "distance_km": 0.1
    }
  ]
}

Changes

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