Originally Posted by
PANews
Cabby, my understanding is that they need airport standard landing aids and traffic control in the dark. There are no other 24/7 options that will accept a tiny P68 mixing it with the big boys. Both the Dutch and the Belgian police proved that big airports are fraught for light police aircraft (albeit Cessna singles) when operating from Amsterdam and Brussels.
Last chance saloon may be somewhere not too major like Teesside.
It seems Gama engineers are moving to North Weald because the hangar there is the same size as the DSA hangar.
Thanks PAN, I looked up Teesside Airports current status, and noted the Tees Valley Mayor bought it off Peel for £40m, but the press say its losing £10m a year.
Part of the airport land has been given to a private company who had previous links with Manston airfield. Not sure how thats happened?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teessi...tional_Airport
Teesside looks a quiet place, so the P68's shouldn't affect any commercial traffic, but how long will it be open for, with it being a money pit?
Can a small regional airport survive in between Leeds and Newcastle airports when its costing the tax payer £10,000,000 every year!
May not be the best place for NPAS to build another expensive hangar.