My local airport now is Liverpool, but I used to Live in Kent and wondered if anyone knows what is happening at these lesser known airports ? Does anyone who about an air service operating between Southend and Manston ? When I was a travel agent in the south I have booked passengers from Southend to Malta Majorca & Billund, from Lydd to Ostend and Beauvais and from Manston and Shoeham to Jersey. All a long time ago now, wondered what was new if anything ??
By: Rabie - 19th July 2001 at 21:46
RE: Lydd Manston Southend & Shoreham
LAST EDITED ON 19-07-01 AT 09:50 PM (GMT)[p]right in my neck of the wood 🙂
1) manston – tarmac v force dispersal base. nice musem, new owneres – i saw concorde there acouple of years ago, they are hoping to become the next londo airport.
2) i dunno about lydd other than the above link show a tarmac stip and my old (very) map shows a X shape
3) rochester – gec/marconi/bae/whatever didn’t renew their lease so the flyers there set up a company and got a short lease. the council want to make it a tech park or whatever but the whole loacl paper is full of people against this. unfortunately the council are helbent on getting rid of the airport :-(. there is just 2 grass runways in a x shape. there are 2 hangers and a shed with a soceity that restors plane. they showed off a spitfire recently. i saw and touched the wing, the inside of the engine, tryed to pick up the wheel (they are unboelavble heavy). the air ambulance crashed near here recently – but now its based at headcorn
4) biggin hill – bromley council recently got a deal going to keep it open as an airport. the f1 supremo berrnie eccelston own ta load of the old raf buildings, the runway is curently used by bizz jets but more and more comercial flights are coming in. its a tarmac stip but f16s can’t land but tornados and jags can.
5) headcorn has the air ambulance, it is a grass strip – dunno any more.
6) west malling – i went to the last airshow there in the very early 90’s (i was so small – like 6 or smoething – it was sold off and now is a business park.
7) there is/was a grass stip near folksone (its on some old maps), near the race course, but it can’t find in on new maps – maybee called lympne -near the wild animal park.
8) the ww2 fighter base at gravesend is now a housing estate (since when i dunno – but a long time)
9) the shorts flying boats out of rochester – the whole places is luxary riverside flats now – but the paintings in local galleries are magnificant
10) the detling diversion base of ww2 is now a county showground
11) the home of uk aviation where the wright brother’s had a factory, etc -eastchuch on sheepy is no more – at lest post ww2
12) dunno weather hawkinge is in kent but was a ww2 base.
other than this there was a propasal to turn the bottom half of the isle of sheppy into the the next london airport. and that the breif summary of aviation in kent.
rabie :9
By: Saab 2000 - 19th July 2001 at 19:55
RE: Lydd Manston Southend & Shoreham
LAST EDITED ON 19-07-01 AT 08:05 PM (GMT)[p]There are services from Manston to america.Passengers get off there cruise at Southampton or Dover (not to sure) and head up by bus,the airline that operates the routes is CC.Here’s also a link to a website about Lydd. http://www.leonardsworlds.com/airports/air-lydd.htm
regards Saab 2000
By: spcooper - 19th July 2001 at 18:11
RE: Lydd Manston Southend & Shoreham
Air Atlanta Icelandic (CC) base there 747`s at Manchester
Regards Scott
By: Newcastle757 - 18th July 2001 at 22:11
RE: Lydd Manston Southend & Shoreham
Isn’t Manston used as an Air Atlanta Icelandic 747 base??? And also is used as a cargo airport?
By: Saab 2000 - 16th July 2001 at 16:38
RE: Lydd Manston Southend & Shoreham
I don’t know much about these airports,but Manston has a saturday summer service to jersey with an Aurigny BN Trislander.Lydd has services to Le Touquet with the airline Sky trek which goes via Shoreham with BN Trislanders.Lydd wants to expand and would like to become a new Stansted.
regards Saab 2000
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July 16, 2001 at 12:41 am