Sheffield City Airport doomed
From Popular Flying November 1989.
"The city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire is set to get its own airport by 1993,following the decision to allow construction at Tinsley Park once the open cast mining of coal is completed at the site. The city council have agreed that the coal can continue to be mined up until February 1993, after which the appropriate work will be carried out on the open cast site to stabilise the land form needed for the opening of the airport four months later.
Sheffield is the largest English city without its own airport and such a development is sure to help regenerate the local economy and bring much needed jobs to a long term unemployment blackspot. Nice to see a new airport being built for a change, instead of the sorry saga of airfield closures"
So There!!! It must be true....it was in Popular Flying.