'Old' names for British airports
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sherburn aero club website
For a road map, put the postcode (LS25 6JE) in here...
streetmap
...zoom out one step, and there it is.
also,
aerodrome info from the CAA
might be worth a look.
For a road map, put the postcode (LS25 6JE) in here...
streetmap
...zoom out one step, and there it is.
also,
aerodrome info from the CAA
might be worth a look.
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Renfrew's runway was quite short, just on 6000ft. if I remember correctly. One of the approaches was over the tall cranes of the Clydebank shipyards. It was a prime design requirement of the Vickers Vanguard that it could operate from this runway with a full load on the LHR in all conditions.
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Goodwoods ICAO code is dead easy to remember.
EGHR (Horse Racing)
Coventry ... Bagington
Peterboghorror.. Sibson
Nottingham.. Tollerton
Northampton... Sywell
And the best one......
Manchester International.... BARTON
Well it was in the '30s
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy
EGHR (Horse Racing)
Coventry ... Bagington
Peterboghorror.. Sibson
Nottingham.. Tollerton
Northampton... Sywell
And the best one......
Manchester International.... BARTON
Well it was in the '30s
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy
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Gatwick was purpose built in 50s on the site of Gatwick race course being adjacent to a main railway line and a proposed motorway.
Hounslow.....Hounslow Heath
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Nutts Corner was this the civil name for R.A.F. Aldergrove or a seperate airfield. We had parked the other way round I might have known all I could see out of my window was a drizzley Irish day and a hare stareing at me across the grass.
Hounslow.....Hounslow Heath
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Nutts Corner was this the civil name for R.A.F. Aldergrove or a seperate airfield. We had parked the other way round I might have known all I could see out of my window was a drizzley Irish day and a hare stareing at me across the grass.
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Chiglet - small typo, it's Baginton. "Bagington" is just the West Midlands accent taking over.
Pom Pax - if you go to Aldergrove, it's much the same as Nutts, lots of drizzle and several bewildered hares!
Pom Pax - if you go to Aldergrove, it's much the same as Nutts, lots of drizzle and several bewildered hares!
As an exiled Yorkshireman, I might point out that LBA is only there (on a ridgeline, in Yorkshire = quite often WX'd) because Bradford Council thought the Leeds swine would get the benefit if it was built at Sherburn (near the A1 and now the M62 and the main railway). The joys of local politics! A quite new old name - RAF Manston, we're now expected to say London Manston....so how much is the taxi fare!
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Nutts Corner was the much smaller civil airfield about two miles South-East of Aldergrove. In the early sixties, before "The Troubles" really started, just about the only active unit at R.A.F. Aldergrove was the Handley Page Hastings Met flight. The airfield's primary function was as a maintenance unit. The scandalous under use of this large airfield was finally recognised. They built the civil terminal facilities and Nutts Corner was closed once everything transferred.
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I think the most recent case of "mistaken identity" was a 748 landing at Langford Lodge, 3nm SW of Aldergrove. The approach plates carry a warning about it.
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'Old' names for British airports
Hawarden is still Hawarden it has never been Chester
The dreaded Wolverhampton Business Airport was Bobbington before it became Halfpenny Green.
Shotwick became Sealand, now a gliding site
Scopwick became Digby
The dreaded Wolverhampton Business Airport was Bobbington before it became Halfpenny Green.
Shotwick became Sealand, now a gliding site
Scopwick became Digby
Just a numbered other
East Midlands - Castle Donington
Leicester - Stoughton
Wasn't Manchester called Ringway? Barton is still there and further north.
Gatwick goes much farther back than the fifties. In the thirties, that strange round building just behind Handbrake House (CAA HQ) was the terminal, called the 'beehive'
Leicester - Stoughton
Wasn't Manchester called Ringway? Barton is still there and further north.
Gatwick goes much farther back than the fifties. In the thirties, that strange round building just behind Handbrake House (CAA HQ) was the terminal, called the 'beehive'
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Last time I looked the old Control Tower of Heston Airport (as featured in the Peace in Our Time newsclip) was still there next to M4 Heston Services westbound.
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Arkroyal I stand corrected
"1930 saw the opening of the Gatwick Aerodrome nearby (the first airport in the UK to have its own railway station)." source Crawley OnLine
"The present station was opened by British Railways in 1958. It was built on the original Gatwick Racecourse, which it was intended to serve, when it was built in 1891."
"Gatwick Racecourse opened in 1891 and proved popular - the Grand National was even hosted there during the Great War. An airfield was opened nearby in the 1930s, and soon after, the circular `Beehive' terminal building was built - a radical design at the time. Gatwick Aerodrome was requisitioned by the R.A.F. during WW2, then returned to commercial use until it was closed in 1956 to be redeveloped as an alternative to Heathrow. was opened by H.M.The Queen in June 1958. "
However on the fifties construction and the closure of Gatwick racecourse I submit a .map of Gatwick Racecourse overlain on the present site.
Heston
. But in 1929 Heston Airport was built, and arterial roads began to be widened and constructed. By 1937 the airport had been bought by the government and plans were in motion to demolish the whole of Cranford apart from the church, and build the country's principal airport. If the second world war hadn't intervened, jets might have been flying from London Cranford airport instead of London Heathrow!
Heston Airport is famous for a single event — it was there that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain landed after flying back from Germany and talks with Adolf Hitler in 1939, waving a piece of white paper and announcing that there would be "Peace in our Time".
During the second world war, RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes flew from Heston airport, followed by US Air Force bombers.
But after the war plans for enlarging the airport were transferred to Heathrow
Spiney Norman the bemused hare was at Aldergrove '58.
Wonderfull what few Yahoo searches and a bit of cut and paste can turn up
"1930 saw the opening of the Gatwick Aerodrome nearby (the first airport in the UK to have its own railway station)." source Crawley OnLine
"The present station was opened by British Railways in 1958. It was built on the original Gatwick Racecourse, which it was intended to serve, when it was built in 1891."
"Gatwick Racecourse opened in 1891 and proved popular - the Grand National was even hosted there during the Great War. An airfield was opened nearby in the 1930s, and soon after, the circular `Beehive' terminal building was built - a radical design at the time. Gatwick Aerodrome was requisitioned by the R.A.F. during WW2, then returned to commercial use until it was closed in 1956 to be redeveloped as an alternative to Heathrow. was opened by H.M.The Queen in June 1958. "
However on the fifties construction and the closure of Gatwick racecourse I submit a .map of Gatwick Racecourse overlain on the present site.
Heston
. But in 1929 Heston Airport was built, and arterial roads began to be widened and constructed. By 1937 the airport had been bought by the government and plans were in motion to demolish the whole of Cranford apart from the church, and build the country's principal airport. If the second world war hadn't intervened, jets might have been flying from London Cranford airport instead of London Heathrow!
Heston Airport is famous for a single event — it was there that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain landed after flying back from Germany and talks with Adolf Hitler in 1939, waving a piece of white paper and announcing that there would be "Peace in our Time".
During the second world war, RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes flew from Heston airport, followed by US Air Force bombers.
But after the war plans for enlarging the airport were transferred to Heathrow
Spiney Norman the bemused hare was at Aldergrove '58.
Wonderfull what few Yahoo searches and a bit of cut and paste can turn up
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You may be interested in this link.......
http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/0...elds/UK/uk.htm
http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/0...elds/UK/uk.htm
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Bigears -
What a great site! Fire up multimap and there's hours of fun to be had (well, if you like that kind of thing.)
Here's Thurleigh for example.
Not only is that one monster runway (about EGLL length), but the site says there were plans to extend it to five miles. Blimey.
Thurleigh
What a great site! Fire up multimap and there's hours of fun to be had (well, if you like that kind of thing.)
Here's Thurleigh for example.
Not only is that one monster runway (about EGLL length), but the site says there were plans to extend it to five miles. Blimey.
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Paulo, Glad you found the site useful, especially as you started this thread. Unfortunately I can take absolutely no credit for the site - I'm not that clever 
By co-incidence you have done me a favour- I've often flown over that airfield inbound to LHR, and wondered what airfield it was that had those cars parked on it- now I know!
What might have been- maybe that would have been 'the other' London airport
Cheers
By co-incidence you have done me a favour- I've often flown over that airfield inbound to LHR, and wondered what airfield it was that had those cars parked on it- now I know!
What might have been- maybe that would have been 'the other' London airport
Cheers
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Apparently before Heathrow became so many square miles of concrete (and a bit like Gatwick and its railway, became the only building site with its own airport), one of the perks that came with the airport managers job, was the shooting rights over the whole airfield!