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Old 31st Jan 2012, 08:31
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Yes indeed, Plymouth had scheduled services of sorts from a 1160 metre runway, Gloucestershire with its little add-on bit at the 09 end is around 1431 metres, not necessarily all licenced runway I appreciate.

It will be interesting to see the new declared distances at EGBJ, which from matspart3's posting appear to be in the process of calculation. My point was however that they should be greater than those available at Plymouth and might therefore support more scheduled services at Staverton, if indeed runway length and hence aircraft type is a consideration, as it has to be.

Another poster above mentions Sheffield City, but wasn't that really built just to obtain grant money to recover a previous industrial derelict site rather than as a serious airfield operation? Anyway if Doncaster/Finningley closes that area around Sheffield will again be a business airfield wilderness again.
But thats another story....

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