Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
It was formerly known as Squires Gate Airport and Blackpool International Airport. Ownership of the airport has changed a number of times over the years. The airport was wholly owned by Blackpool Borough Council until 2004, when it was sold to a consortium led by Wolverhampton Airport operators City Hopper Ltd (CHAL), [ 3 ] who operated it ...
This is a list of airports that serve the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta, Canada. [1] [2] Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System. [3] Communities in parentheses indicates the airport is not in a community. Location of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta
Squires Gate is a district and an electoral ward in South Shore, Blackpool on the Fylde coast, in the Blackpool district, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is located at the south of the town near the boundary with Lytham St Annes. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 6,437. [1]
Despite the existence of the Squires Gate site, now Blackpool Airport, which had been used intermittently for flying since October 1909, Blackpool Corporation decided in 1928 to build a new airfield close to Stanley Park. The aerodrome was located 1.7 mi (2.7 km) east south east of North Pier at an elevation of 45 ft (14 m) above sea level.
Aviation pioneer Amy Johnson's last complete flight was a ferry flight for the ATA from Squires Gate to Oxford. [78] In March 2015, the government announced that a new enterprise zone would be created at Blackpool Airport, using some airport land and adjoining land. [79] South Shore has two railway stations – Squires Gate and Blackpool South ...
Squires Gate railway station serves the Squires Gate area of the popular seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, although it is located just outside the borough boundary. It lies on the Blackpool South to Preston line and is the nearest station to Blackpool Airport .
British NorthWest Airlines was an airline based at Blackpool International Airport.. British North West Airlines Limited (traded as British NorthWest Airlines) was incorporated in October 2001, the airline had a Civil Aviation Authority Type B Operating licence (they were permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with fewer than 20 seats and/or weighing less than 10 tonnes).
It named the updated aircraft the Lancashire Aircraft Prospector, and production, at first based at Blackpool (Squires Gate) Airport, was moved to Samlesbury in 1960. Only six were built and in 1963 the operation moved to Lympne Airport where it closed down in the following year. [13]