Well, I am new to bulletin boards but it surprises me how much hear say and rumours are mentioned with very little fact included. Any comments on this lot?
£664,762.74 is the Total owed to Blackpool Airport Ltd from Comed Aviation Ltd
Eleven aircraft impounded at the airport, valued at between £15,000 and £350,000 each, these include
1 Bandit
2 PA23's
1 Slingsby
5 PA28's
1 Chipmunk
1 C172
£544,154.13 is the Total allocated to the eleven aircraft impounded by the airport.
This is the amount wanted by the airport from the owners of these eleven aircraft.
The airport solicitors state - The airport is not under any obligation to provide details of the way in which this sum is apportioned between the aircraft because the aircraft were detained under section 88 (1) (a) (ii) of the act. Meaning they can sell any aircraft to pay any of the charges. Eg sell the Slingsby to pay fees allocated to the Bandit.
Other aircraft have been impounded by the receivers at Blackpool. Does anybody know how many and what they are?
One aircraft may have been impounded by a maintenance company at Leeds Bradford Airport. ( Multiflight ?) ( Owed £250,000?) Can any one confirm this?
Mr Peter Whitehead - Windmill Holdings
see
http://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/peter.htm
This is the man who was allegedly reported to have invested money into Comed, wanted it back and then called in the receivers when he could not get it. Was it his money or was he the front man for another director at the football club? Anybody Know?
Relaunch said on the 14th that Comed would be up and running again next week, that week and another has been and gone, what's happened to the deal with the airport? I'd guess there was no deal! He also said Comed had not gone belly up, how about tits up!
DaDa asked if people owed money would be paid first, again I doubt it because Mr M as people call him, would start a new company and do the usual to all the others - crap on them.
Dagger-D was the nearest to the point.
Purple Pitot - Have you any more information on the inside take over? Come on spit it out if you have, or is it just rumour?
Come on let's have some proper news! Surely someone can add to this!
The council owns 100% of the shares of Blackpool Airport Ltd but they operate the company at "arms length" even though the airport is heavily subsidised by the council. The Airport has it's own board of directors, see below.
Useful Contact Details
Comed Aviation Ltd
Building 28
Blackpool Airport
Squires Gate Lane
Blackpool
FY4 2QY
Tel 01253 349072
Company No 01629566
DATE OF Incorporation 16/04/1982
Directors -
Mr R Murgatroyd and Miss A R Dearden
C.C.S MACMILLAN and D.J POWER
Joint Administrative Receivers
BDO Stoy Hayward
Third Floor
Peter House
St Peter's Square
Manchester
M1 5AB
Tel 0161 236 1955
Mr P Williams
District Auditor
3rd Floor
Sumner House
St Thomas's Road
Chorley
PR7 1HP
Tel 01257 230303
Blackpool Borough Council
See -
http://www.blackpool.gov.uk
( Good web site, even has minutes for the meetings etc)
The Chief Executive
Blackpool Borough Council
PO Box 77
Town Hall
Corporation Street
Blackpool
FY1 1AD
Gordon Marsden MP (for Blackpool South)
Constituency Office
132 Highfield Road
Blackpool
FY4 2HH
Tel 01253 344143
Rt Hon Michael Jack MP (for Fylde)
House of Commons
Westminster
SW1A 0AA
Tel 020 7219 3000
Mr Gary Eastwood (Airport Managing Director)
Blackpool Airport Ltd
Squires Gate Lane
Blackpool
FY4 2QY
Tel 01253 343434
Company No 02084247
Date of Incorporation 15/12/1986
Board of Directors
Mr G Eastwwod Executive Director
Cllr D Owen Chairman
Cllr M Callow
Cllr N E Hardy
Cllr L Henderson
Cllr R R Lewis
Cllr A Mathews
Cllr G Wynne
Mr R J Millington Executive Director - resigned 20/09/2000
Cllr P R Wood resigned 05/05/2000
Cllr W Burgess resigned 20/09/2000
Cllr S Hill resigned 05/05/2000
Details for all the Councillors can be found on the Council web site, look under Democracy.
The accountants acting for the Airport are KPMG
The Solicitors acting for Blackpool Airport/Council are:-
Denton Wilde Sapte
Five Chancery Lane
Clifford's Inn
London
EC4A 1BU
Tel 020 73205573
Quote SWM Ref Blackpool Airport
The Local Government Ombudsman
Beverley House
17 Shipton Road
York
YO30 5FZ
Tel 01904 663200
(Ask for Complaint form)