Hawarden Airport

Chester Hawarden Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGNR
IATA code	CEG
Coordinates	53 ° 10 ′ 41 "  N , 2 ° 58 ′ 40"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 41 "  N , 2 ° 58 ′ 40"  W
Height above MSL	14 m (46  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	6 miles southwest of Chester
Street	1 km to
Basic data
opening	1939
operator	Aviation Park Group
Start-and runway
04/22	2043 m × 45 m asphalt / concrete

The Chester Hawarden Airport is a small commercial airport in the northeast of Wales in the county of Flintshire north of the village Broughton , a few kilometers southwest of the English Chester . The airport is currently no longer served by airlines on scheduled services. In particular, it serves as the works airfield for the Airbus company based at the airfield .

history

RAF Hawarden during the war

RAF Hawarden

At the beginning of the Second World War , an aircraft factory with an attached Royal Air Force airport for the Vickers-Armstrongs company was built near Broughton . During the war, 5,540 Vickers Wellington and 235 Avro Lancaster were created in it .

In addition, the Royal Air Force Station Hawarden ( RAF Hawarden for short ) housed the 48th Maintenance Unit between September 1939 and 1957 , which has stored, serviced and scrapped thousands of military aircraft during its existence.

The aircraft factory was taken over in 1948 by the de Havilland Aircraft Company , which produced a number of different types of aircraft here until 1960.

Hawarden Airfield

RAF Hawarden was closed in 1959 and the operation of the airfield was continued civilly. In the 1960s, the de Havilland company was incorporated into Hawker Siddeley (HS) and became the manufacturing facility for the HS125 for decades . The program, including the Hawker brand, was later sold to Raytheon in the USA , with part of the production remaining in Broughton for years.

At the beginning of the 1970s, HS was absorbed by British Aerospace , which expanded the factory in Chester, as it was then called, into a manufacturing facility for Airbus components. When the integrated Airbus company was founded in 2000, the aircraft factory became the Broughton Airbus plant.

Web links

• Homepage of the airport
• Homepage of the resident flight school
• Homepage of the resident Cessna broker