Plymouth city airport again
Just read on a photo site that a light aircraft which force landed due to bad weather has been physically blocked from flying out - apparently SHH will allow it to be dismantled and removed, but not flown out. Anybody know any more?
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Plymouth airport.
Its nearly hard to think this was a airport at 1 time. Nature soon takes over when structures etc are not in use.Such a shame to see it like this. A good video to show us how Plymouth is like today.
Its nearly hard to think this was a airport at 1 time. Nature soon takes over when structures etc are not in use.Such a shame to see it like this. A good video to show us how Plymouth is like today.
I was Ops D/O until 1986 at LHR for BMA and we handled Brymon Airways who's spiritual home was PLH.
They had a twice daily HP Herald from/to LHR-NQY taken over from BMA in 1977 with morning and evening peak slots, upgraded to x 3 daily with a lunchtime one via EXT and/or PLH when the 50 seat Dash 7's came along in 1981.
There was the Twin Otter LHR-PLH service (3 or 4 times a day IIRC some via EXT) with interline pax connecting onwards to the ISC St Marys especially during the summer (also some pax went via NQY)
The Dash 7 was also was put on the LHR-PLH route (LGW too?) - but when? can someone help.
PLH the home of Brymon - The transformation of Roborough from a tranquil provincial aerodrome into Plymouth City Airport PLH began in March 1975, when Brymon Airways took over the running of the site on a 125-year lease from the City Council.
In the 70's Brymon started regular services from PLH and built up a number of routes taking in LHR, the Channel Islands and to the Isles of Scilly ISC.
As the decade unfolded further destinations were added to include regular flights to Morlaix, Cherbourg and Cork.
In 1978 Brymon were given the go ahead to also fly to Gatwick and the following year a new Plymouth to Birmingham service was inaugurated.
Brymon boss Charles Stuart running through the passenger growth from 1981 to 1985 showed an annual 14% rise on both the LHR routes from the SW.
Some nice old photos here - Brymon Airways at Roborough, Plymouth Airport
PLH summers day with 2 young spotters
They had a twice daily HP Herald from/to LHR-NQY taken over from BMA in 1977 with morning and evening peak slots, upgraded to x 3 daily with a lunchtime one via EXT and/or PLH when the 50 seat Dash 7's came along in 1981.
There was the Twin Otter LHR-PLH service (3 or 4 times a day IIRC some via EXT) with interline pax connecting onwards to the ISC St Marys especially during the summer (also some pax went via NQY)
The Dash 7 was also was put on the LHR-PLH route (LGW too?) - but when? can someone help.
PLH the home of Brymon - The transformation of Roborough from a tranquil provincial aerodrome into Plymouth City Airport PLH began in March 1975, when Brymon Airways took over the running of the site on a 125-year lease from the City Council.
In the 70's Brymon started regular services from PLH and built up a number of routes taking in LHR, the Channel Islands and to the Isles of Scilly ISC.
As the decade unfolded further destinations were added to include regular flights to Morlaix, Cherbourg and Cork.
In 1978 Brymon were given the go ahead to also fly to Gatwick and the following year a new Plymouth to Birmingham service was inaugurated.
Brymon boss Charles Stuart running through the passenger growth from 1981 to 1985 showed an annual 14% rise on both the LHR routes from the SW.
Some nice old photos here - Brymon Airways at Roborough, Plymouth Airport
PLH summers day with 2 young spotters
Any truth in the idea of Plymouth heliport ? Or is it just somebody's fantasy ?
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[QUOTE=rog747;10651333]I was Ops D/O until 1986 at LHR for BMA and we handled Brymon Airways who's spiritual home was PLH.
They had a twice daily HP Herald from/to LHR-NQY taken over from BMA in 1977 with morning and evening peak slots, upgraded to x 3 daily with a lunchtime one via EXT and/or PLH when the 50 seat Dash 7's came along in 1981.
There was the Twin Otter LHR-PLH service (3 or 4 times a day IIRC some via EXT) with interline pax connecting onwards to the ISC St Marys especially during the summer (also some pax went via NQY)
The Dash 7 was also was put on the LHR-PLH route (LGW too?) - but when? can someone help.
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I believe the Dash 7 went onto the twice-daily PLH-LHR route, then a new service, in March 1982, and from that autumn of 1982 the hitherto separate twice-daily NQY-LHR route was combined with PLH, this marking the retirement of the Herald ex NQY. Frequency of the combined Dash 7 service was subsequently upped to 3 a day in 1983, and 4 a day by 1984. As far as I'm aware the only regular EXT call enroute from PLH to LHR was a temporary arrangement during a rail strike in July 1982?
The Twin Otter was scheduled to LGW, not LHR. Twice-daily PLH-LGW began from October 1978 onwards, and EXT was added as an ongoing regular call from Jan 1984, after Air UK ditched their Bandeirante service between EXT & LGW. Dash 7 took over from the Twin Otter c.1988.
They had a twice daily HP Herald from/to LHR-NQY taken over from BMA in 1977 with morning and evening peak slots, upgraded to x 3 daily with a lunchtime one via EXT and/or PLH when the 50 seat Dash 7's came along in 1981.
There was the Twin Otter LHR-PLH service (3 or 4 times a day IIRC some via EXT) with interline pax connecting onwards to the ISC St Marys especially during the summer (also some pax went via NQY)
The Dash 7 was also was put on the LHR-PLH route (LGW too?) - but when? can someone help.
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I believe the Dash 7 went onto the twice-daily PLH-LHR route, then a new service, in March 1982, and from that autumn of 1982 the hitherto separate twice-daily NQY-LHR route was combined with PLH, this marking the retirement of the Herald ex NQY. Frequency of the combined Dash 7 service was subsequently upped to 3 a day in 1983, and 4 a day by 1984. As far as I'm aware the only regular EXT call enroute from PLH to LHR was a temporary arrangement during a rail strike in July 1982?
The Twin Otter was scheduled to LGW, not LHR. Twice-daily PLH-LGW began from October 1978 onwards, and EXT was added as an ongoing regular call from Jan 1984, after Air UK ditched their Bandeirante service between EXT & LGW. Dash 7 took over from the Twin Otter c.1988.
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I used the airport from 1978 until 2000 mainly going to and returning to work.Then moved overseas but was shocked at it closing .Now when I visit I have to use crowded trains or worse National express whose buses on the Plymouth route are old and uncomfortable .Surely a small feeder aeroplane of 12 seats etc would make money?
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I used the airport from 1978 until 2000 mainly going to and returning to work.Then moved overseas but was shocked at it closing .Now when I visit I have to use crowded trains or worse National express whose buses on the Plymouth route are old and uncomfortable .Surely a small feeder aeroplane of 12 seats etc would make money?
probably demand to some extent but the fixed costs of having the airport would need in the region of 1M pax per year to make ends meet... unless there were government subsidies, would sadly render any operation unviable...
The future issue of any reopening will be that LHR and LGW (the prime mover routes from the SW) will not likely accept small aircraft as it did in days gone by...
