Mickey Kaye, that's the publicly released figure. Do you know how much it is to have years of planning inquiries, buy the airfield from the MOD, build a terminal, car parks, access roads, resurface a runway and taxiways, install CAT III lighting, ILS, NDB, DME, Radar, ATC equipment, fire equipment, soundproof nearby homes and obtain the requried CAA licences?
I bet you wouldn't get much change from £80 million for all that. And it's losing millions each year.
The guy who wants to buy Sheffield and turn it into a decent GA and business airfield better have deep pockets. It won't cost anywhere near £80 million, but he'll certainly need a large bank balance and be willing to lose it all.
Norman Normal, when the new link road is built, Finningley will be 5 minutes from the M18. DSA will be only 20 minutes from SZD. I'm not sure that "2 miles of A-road and country lane to negotiate" is really a challenge, considering that East Midlands is 2 miles along an A-road, and Leeds Bradford may as well be Cumbria for the pain that it is to travel there.
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