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Post by admin on Mar 15, 2006 16:47:44 GMT
Finningley facts
Take a look at some facts behind Robin Hood International Airport, including costs, historical information and more...
* It cost 80 million pounds to build the current airport.
* The airport runway is just under 2 miles long, one of the longest in the country.
* There are three and a half thousand spaces at the terminal car park.
* Nine kilometres of new chain link fencing have been put up around the airport.
* The old RAF Finningley buildings haven't gone away - when they were demolished they were used as infill under the new apron's foundations. Some weren't demolished and are still in use.
* At opening, Finningley planneds to carry 1.3 million passengers a year. Manchester airport by comparison carries 18 million passengers a year. Heathrow has 65 million a year.
* By the Summer of 2006 the airport is expecting to offer flight's to 33 destinations in 20 different countries.
* Another famous person could have had their name on the airport's signs... Charles Darwin was a contender, as was Second World War fighter pilot Douglas Bader and pioneering aviator Amy Johnson.
* The world airport code for the airport is DSA.
* The airport has already created 611 jobs.
* The RAF used the site as an airbase for 60 years between 1936 and 1996.
* Finningley was a V-Bomber base and at one time stored nuclear missiles.
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Post by palbitine2 on Dec 31, 2006 20:39:15 GMT
it was a base for the vulcan bomber
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Post by palbitine2 on Dec 31, 2006 22:15:05 GMT
it has a good history
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Post by palbitine2 on Jan 1, 2007 10:36:06 GMT
and the a380 can land there
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Post by metromadman on Jan 1, 2007 14:44:32 GMT
was it a war airport
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Post by mattw on Jan 2, 2007 0:11:44 GMT
i will give you a really detailed answer to your question so then you have to ask no more questions on this subject. YES - it was a war airport R - Royal A - Air F - Force Finningley This means the airfield was owned by the country and was used for all kinds of millitary procedures. The airfield was used in WW2 against the German Nazis and had some of the most famous aircraft in the world including Vulcans, Torpedos and Red Arrows flying out on a really regualr basis. The site was then kept open after the war and a airshow was held annually which brought the concorde to Doncaster along with all the planes which were used in the war. The base shut in 1995 (me thinks) and then in 1998 Peel bought the site to build a airport which opened in 2005. And if you didnt know it is now something called a AIRPORT where aeroplanes (thats them things you see in the sky with wings) fly from and to. I really do hope this answers your question and please please please do not ask me about anything else i have posted in this message as i havent a clue (it is just the odd fact i know). When i say dont ask me dont ask anyone else either because 195 posts in a day is ridiculos. |
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Post by Tom B on Jan 2, 2007 17:51:33 GMT
1996 actually.
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