Brough Aerodrome

Brough Aerodrome
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGNB
Coordinates	53 ° 43 '11 "  N , 0 ° 33' 59"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '11 "  N , 0 ° 33' 59"  W.
Height above MSL	4 m (13  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	15 miles west of Kingston-upon-Hull
Street	1 km to
Basic data
opening	1916
closure	2013
operator	BAE Systems (most recently)
Start-and runway
12/30	1054 m × 30 m asphalt

The former Brough Aerodrome was an airfield on the southern outskirts of Broughs on the banks of the Humber in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England .

The airfield served in particular as a works airfield for BAE Systems , hence the alternative name BAE Brough .

history

The Aerodrome has been home to the aviation industry since the First World War . Here the Blackburn Airplane & Motor Company tested seaplanes from 1916.

It used to be used by the Royal Air Force as a military airfield . The Brough Flying Training School was used to train fighter pilots during World War II .

After the war, the last two aircraft produced by Blackburn in significant numbers for the British armed forces, the Beverly and the Buccaneer, were built here .

Between 1949 and 1957, the ring road along the outer border was used as a racing track. On Brough Circuit won Stirling Moss his first race win.

The Blackburn company went into Hawker Siddeley in the 1960s , which was merged into British Aerospace in the 1970s and then into BAE Systems in 1999. Second-generation British Harriers emerged in Brough in the last decades of the 20th century and Hawk trainers continued into the 21st century . The airfield was closed for the first time between the early 1990s and early 2008.

After the assembly of the Hawk was relocated, the airfield was finally closed in 2013.

Todays use

Part of the area is still used by BAE Systems as part of the Hawk program, which is now the oldest operating British aircraft factory. Today there is also the Humber Enterprise Park .

Others

RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor

The Royal Air Force Station Holme-on-Spalding Moor , or RAF Holme for short , used to be about 25 km to the northwest . The Blackburn company leased the airfield as a test area from 1958. This use by the company, which later became part of British Aerospace, lasted until 1983 when the airfield was closed. The runway, which is longer than that of Brough, was used, among other things, for flight tests by the Buccanneer. Since the runway in Brough was too short for this aircraft, the aircraft, and later the series machines, were towed to Holme.

The airfield located northwest of the town of the same name was opened in 1941 and had three intersecting runways. During the Second World War he was under the RAF Bomber Command . Both Lancaster and Halifax squadrons lay here . After the war ended, the station was still a Dakota base until October 1945 . At the beginning of the Cold War , he served a short time at an RAF flight school in 1952/53 and then for a few years with the United States Air Force .

Web links

Commons : Brough Aerodrome  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brough location page on BAE Systems home page
• Homepage of the Humber Enterprise Park