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Northrepps Diner
Recommend excellent weekend 'Pilots Breakfast' worth stopping in for!
RAF Bisterne
Now long disused, this airfield formed part of the Airfields of the New Forest during WW2. It was a temporary airfield mainly for the protection of the ports along the South Coast and for interdiction strikes into German held Europe prior to the Nomandy Landings. Very little remains today
History
Cricklewood Aerodrome was built in 1912 to support the Handley Page factory in Cricklewood, London, England. Handley Page Transport operated service to Paris from here until merging into Imperial Airways in 1924. The airfield was closed in 1929. Currently the area is built up almost completely with residential homes. The original reception hall and some of the Handley Page aircraft factory still remain as commercial real estate.
Lovely place
home of London's budding pilots
Tube Connex
The Tube connections are really handy for getting out and into the heart of the city. Very efficient.
RAF Waddington
This is 30 mile from where I live and its brilliant
Hilton to open a hotel on the Humberside Airport site
The first hotel at Humberside Airport was opened as recently as 2010. It is called Nightel and was designed specifically for people working on the North Sea gas field production rigs (which are serviced by fleets of helicopters from the airport). It has been so successful that the operators are building a new hotel for use by the general public. It will carry Hilton branding and is due to be opened in mid 2016.
day out with great grand children
very often take my great grad children here for the day the love watching the planes and helicopter taking of and landing plus with cafe just below the tower with ice cream sweets and burger and chips just to annoy my there parents
lhr
One of the great airports in the world
BognorRegis My home town.
I always wondered why I was born in Bognor Regis, now it makes sense to me. My parents were Lived in London until just after the war (my mother born in London and my Father born near his ancestral home of Ely, but grew up in West Ham). My Father was a Fighter pilot during the Second world War and in 1945 his was with 83 G.S.U. training on Typhoon fighters to go to the far east for the fight against the Japanese. At this time 83 G.S.U. was stationed at Bognor then Westhampnet (Goodwood today). So this would explain where My parents got the notion to move to Bognor Regis. My father had spent time there and knew what it was like.
Heathrow
Heathrow will become better once Scotland gains its independence
Sheculed Passenger Services
There Is Daily Regular Service Using Ethier A Bae(Avro 146 RJ)146 Up To A Island,A Single Jetstream 41 Service,And You Can hire private jets out of EGLF FAB(Farnbrough Regional)The Only Time It Sees The A380 Is At The Airshow.
Flying into RAF Brooklands
Is there an option to fly into Brooklands, in a fixed wind microlight C42
charlesl@fasttechnology.co.uk
07766997580
many thanks
Third Runway
The pratt who said now he has seen the Satellite view of Heathrow realize that a whole village will be demolished and a cemetery with all my family and friends in will be ripped up .
Fuel?
Is fuel available either at Sandown or Bembridge?
Third runway at Heathrow
Now that I see a satellite picture of Heathrow I see just how easy it would be to add a third runway the other side of the Bath Road. Do th British want to keep a place in the Top Ten of European flight centers or not? Get on with it Brits!
smeg
smeg
Now closed
Bristol Filton Airport is now closed
Closure
A lovely little airfield , sadly closed on 19 Dec 2013
LAC
friendly airport in the middle of england
greatly recommended
destinations
Where can I go to from Ledbury airport and how much would it be
Air Southwest
Air Southwest was taken over by Eastern Airlines in 2010, but ceased operations in 2011.
Castle Combe
Now a motor racing circuit.
Cromer/Northrepps
Friendly, charming airfield with grass runway in good condition. PA-28 got in and out very easily. Short taxi ride to Cromer and nearby coastal walks.
SAS to introduce scheduled services between Copenhagen and H
Scandinavian Airlines System are to introduce a scheduled service between Copenhagen and Humberside. It will commence on 28th October 2013 and will be operated on five days per week.
Over the years, Humberside has been very successful at attracting major flag carriers. As well as the current KLM services, there have been scheduled offerings from British Airways, Air France, Icelandair and Sabena. There have also been charters operated by Austrian Airlines and Air Malta.
Humberside Airport wins another consumer award
Humberside Airport has been rated as the second best airport in the United Kingdom by The Consumers' Association, the publishers of Which? Further information is available on the websites located at which.co.uk and airhumberside.proboards.com
airside trolleys
Modern airports provide airside trolleys, which fit inside toilet cubicles for security. Heathrow is too mean. This is an important facility for mothers carrying necessities for small children and for elderly passengers who find the trolleys convenient to lean on, while wheeling their cabin luggage and duty free purchases. I have heard LHR staff comment that they are fed up with collecting and stacking the trolleys. Apparently this is not a problem for staff at Amsterdam, Zurich and other modern, customer friendly airports.
Fabulous place - will definitely return1
We recently visited this airstrip to be met with the warmest hospitality and as a result, had a fabulous trip to West Bay and the Dorset Coast. Thanks to Phil Parmiter for all his help and assistance. Rob and Deborah McKellar
TL 376 NDB Decommissioned
Last Feb 2011 Decom Jun 2011
Oban North Conel does have an NDB
Oban NDB - OBN 404 kHz is located just to the east of the present airport boundry.
L/L: N56°27'49" x W005°23'41" 39ft ASL
Facilities
Good cafe open all week. Jet A1, UL91 and Avgas available. Within Shawbury MATZ which is usually only active 9 to 5 weekdays, 133.15
Sandown (Isle of Wight) Airport Operational
26JUN13. Sandown Airport has new owners - Jonathan Owen and Tony Fowler. A major revamp is underway to provide, amongst other things, a permanent clubhouse on the south side and where the famous Carla will soon be based (refreshments meanwhile will continue to be available from the mobile catering unit near to the tower).
Communications: Tower on 119.275MHz (no change). Telephone: +44 (0) 1983 716926 (new). Website: www.eghn.org.uk and e-mail: tower@eghn.org.uk (both new). PPR is not required. Free WiFi is also available. Cafe telephone (Carla): +44 (0) 79302 42488.
Please see website for full details.
Landing fees have been REDUCED - typically the landing fee for a light aircraft is only £10.
Try Sandown too
Sandown has been saved ...suggest supporting that too.
Great airfield, friendly and helpful staff
It's great Bembridge is fully open again and I can vouch the staff are friendly and helpful. I go there frequently in my R44 heli; make a day of it and eat at the Propeller Inn, adjacent to the airfield, or walk to the Crab and Lobster Inn (about 30 mins along beach).
new name
Kemble airport renamed Cotswold airport
RAF Lakenheath
Loved it, my son was crew chief on F 15's years back.
airfield info
Mainly microlights fly from here. Most of the old ww2 airfield is put over to Saturday and Sunday markets on the hardstanding of the old runways. One runway is used to park/store vehicles. The old control tower can still be seen tho dwarfed by a telephone mast.
airshows and museum
Sywell has a great airshow every two years (next one 2014) and a excellent free admission aviation museum, open from march to October.
Intro
Learned to fly there in mid 70s. First to use first tar runway,m which we build with stones from the former railway line. Once you have soloed there no airfield will appear daunting, since the runmway is the worlds narrowest aircraft deck, which seldom points into wind. Still a great place to fly/soar/tour, all year round. Got my Gold height in Jnauary, Diamond in June, it really is all year soaring, but just a touch cool in winter
Airline Services
http://www.citywing.com/citywing/I7/EN/images/cw-timetable.pdf
Airline Services
Citywings flies between Anglesey Airport and Cardiff International Airport twice a day both ways Monday to Friday.
Tristars and VC10s
The reason the RAF doesn't use VC10s for passenger is because they are old, knackered and there would be absolute bloody uproar if one came down whilst full of soldiers. Tristars are a similar story, they were twenty years old when the RAF got them in the early nineties, and as a result are similarly knackered, and spend a lot of time being fixed.
This is why the MoD has replaced these aircraft with the lovely new, fuel efficient A330 Voyager MRTT.
And the RAF charter in civilian carriers for the same reason other airlines charter aircraft, when demand for airtrooping exceeds the RAFs ability to supply it.
ATIS
The ATIS frequency for Bournemouth is now 133.725
Other Frequencys
App :119.475
Tower :125.600
Ground :121.700
ATIS :133.725
FR Aviation (Cobham) :123.650
Servisair :129:750
Skycare :130.025
European :130.175
Channel Express :130.600
Signature Handling :122.350
re: KLM
That's great news! When the flights start, we'll toggle the "scheduled airline service" flag.
re: HEATHROW DE LONDRES UN AEROPUERTO PROFESIONAL
Reply to @ELICE: en mi experiencia, el única problema serio con Heathrow es la espera larga en las aduanas. En otros aspectos, me parece un buen aeropuerto, y es fácil llegar al centro de Londres desde allí.
The Passenger Experience
Humberside Airport has been independently rated as having the 9th best passenger service of all the World's airports. More services would be welcome. Scheduled services are provided by Eastern Airways, Flybe and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Charter flights are offered by Thomas Cook, Balkan Holidays and Low Cost Holidays. The long term car park is only 3 minutes from the terminal and it is possible to be driving away only ten minutes after landing. British Commonwealth and other overseas visitors can pass through the border controls in a very timely manner.
Operating Hours
0900-1900
50£ fine for landing outside of thesse hours
LANDING FEES
Acording to the official charts the fees are as follows
Microlights-8£-Overnight parking-10£
All other ACFT-10£- OVernight Parking
KLM
Welcome KLM April 2013
Closed in 2015
🔗 Mon, 11 Jan 2016
— @david at Hucknall Airfield, United Kingdom
Closed on 2015-03-01 for redevelopment.