Woodford Airfield
| Woodford Aerodrome Manchester Woodford Aerodrome |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EGCD | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 90 m (295 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 7 miles north of Macclesfield | ||
| Street | A523 / A5102 | ||
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| opening | 1924 | ||
| closure | August 25, 2011 | ||
| operator | BAE Systems (most recently) | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 07/25 | 2290 m of asphalt | ||
Woodford Airfield was a works airfield of BAE Systems in England . It is located in Woodford in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport .
history
The Woodford Aerodrome was founded in 1924 by Alliott Verdon Roe (AV Roe) and originally had a small unpaved landing area. In the 1930s and 1940s the airfield was expanded considerably and became the location of the AVRO works , which also built the Avro Lancaster and carried out test flights there.
In 1963, Avro became part of Hawker Siddeley , which in 1977 merged with British Aerospace and then BAE Systems. The factory airfield continued to operate.
As a result of the termination of the Nimrod MRA.4 project in October 2010 as part of the then white paper of the British Ministry of Defense, BAE Systems decided to give up the location including the airfield. Production ended in March 2011 and the factory airfield was closed the following August.
Todays use
In January 2013, the first development plans for a residential and commercial settlement were presented to the city administration.
A museum commemorates the importance of Woodford to the British aviation industry.
Incidents
- On August 23, 1947, an Avro Tudor 2 of the Ministry of Supply ( aircraft registration G-AGSU ) crashed near the airfield during a test flight immediately after take-off. All 6 occupants, 4 crew members and 2 passengers, were killed. Avro's chief designer Roy Chadwick was among the fatalities . The cause of the accident was an error in the assembly of the ailerons of the prototype.
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport and Aircraft information. Airport-Data.com, accessed on September 12, 2013 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Woodford Aeródromo ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Accident report Tudor 2 G-AGSU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 21, 2016.
