Hi guys. First post on this forum. (I am more into historic aircraft (military/civil)). I was wondering if you could help me with a query. As you may know there is vocal yokel opposition to the expansion of the Halfpenny Green WBA. As Cosford has lost out on the military contract to St Athan would it make sense to turn Cosford, which has a far bigger footprint and infrastructure and travel links, (WBA is all country lanes) into a commercial venture. Only problem is its runway is only 3770ft long (Halfpenny Green 3864ft) so theoretically, what commercial aircraft could operate from this length? :confused: Hope you can enlighten me. 🙂
Thanks
Ivan
By: BlueRobin - 18th January 2007 at 16:06
As of 1st Dec 06, the name is Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green
By: MontyP - 18th January 2007 at 14:27
By the looks of their websit the largest aircraft to vist recently has been a Dornier 328 of Scot Airways 🙂
By: rdc1000 - 18th January 2007 at 14:20
I think that its too short for the Airbus A320 family.
Dash 8 Q400, BAE 146s or Emb 145 should not have a problem
Not really any of these I’m afraid, and certainly not the RJ145 which has a long field requirement really. The Q400 and 146 could theoretically use it, but not with sensible loads on sensible routes. 3770ft is only 1149m, therefore shorter than Plymouth, which cannot feasibly handle Q400 aircraft. Furthermore, it depends on issues such as RESAs etc, and what provision there is for these, as this may reduce the runway length further as well as the coding of the runway if it were to attain a full civil licence.
Basically the length you are talking about, assuming the full length can be used, would be restricted to Dash-8 100/200/Q200/300/Q300, ATR-42, Dornier 228/328, Beech 1900 and a few other residual types, such as DHC6/7 etc.
By: andrewm - 18th January 2007 at 14:01
I think that its too short for the Airbus A320 family.
Dash 8 Q400, BAE 146s or Emb 145 should not have a problem
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