London Oxford Airport
| London Oxford /
Oxford (Kidlington) Airport |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EGTK | ||
| IATA code | OXF | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 82 m (269 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 11 km north of Oxford | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1935 | ||
| operator | Oxford Aviation Services Limited (t / a Oxford Airport). | ||
| Terminals | 1 | ||
| Passengers | 1,205 (2014) | ||
| Flight movements |
64 (2014) | ||
| Runways | |||
| 01/19 | 1553 m × 30 m asphalt | ||
| 03/21 | 900 m of grass | ||
| 11/29 | 760 m of asphalt | ||
The Oxford Airport ( IATA code OXF, ICAO code EGTK) until 2009 Oxford Airport , formerly Kidlington Airport , located in Kidlington, eleven kilometers from Oxford and 100 km from London away. It is the only civil airport in the county of Oxfordshire and, next to Coventry, one of only two commercial airports between the major airports of Heathrow and Birmingham ; The Oxford Aviation Academy , the largest flight training facility in Europe, is also located here.
Historically always characterized by pilot training and further education, the number of flight movements fell to 48,000 in 2008, although up to 160,000 are permitted annually. In the 1960s, Oxford was one of the busiest airports in the world.
history
RAF Kidlington
The history of the airport goes back to the 1930s: The facility was founded in 1935 by the city of Oxford , which actually wanted to use it as a municipal airport. That did not happen at first. Because during the Second World War , the Royal Air Force initially set up a center for pilot training here, the Royal Air Force Station Kidlington , or RAF Kidlington for short . The last RAF unit stationed here was disbanded in 1951.
Civil use
The civil re-use began as early as 1946. By the 1960s at the latest, OXF gained particular fame as a pilot training facility. In 1975 the grass runway was given an asphalt surface and in 1988 it was extended to 1,552 meters. In 1981 the public sector privatized the airport. It initially belonged to BBA Aviation plc and later changed hands: the real estate investors David and Simon Reuben acquired the airport in July 2007 and set up CSE Aviation Ltd., which is also part of their group of companies. as an operator. In the same year the asphalt was renewed and the runway widened to the current dimensions; In addition, both the taxiway and the apron underwent extensive modernization work, and a new business terminal has been in operation since 2008.
Today, around 35 percent of the flight movements at Oxford Airport are accounted for by training and continuing education of pilots, ten percent by corporate aircraft, and the rest by charter and private aircraft. Due to its relative proximity to London - the travel time to London's West End is around an hour, and a helicopter service with a 20-minute flight time is available for particularly financially strong passengers - the airport is an attractive destination for company jets. In order to take this into account and to increase international awareness, the renaming of "Oxford Airport" to London Oxford Airport, which was criticized as misleading by the Oxford civil population, took place in August 2009 .
The airport is equipped with an instrument landing system and state -of-the- art Thales radar and operates daily between 6:30 am and 10:00 pm GMT ; a night flight ban applies from midnight.
Incidents
- In 1941, an Airspeed Oxford piloted by aviation pioneer Amy Johnson crashed into the Thames Estuary on the way from Blackpool to Oxford . Various mysteries have grown up around this crash .
- On December 6, 2003, the French billionaire Paul-Louis Halley along with his wife and pilot was killed when his Socata TBM 700 went into a tailspin on approach. The exact cause of the accident could never be clarified by the British Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority (AAIB) - since the official investigation showed that the aircraft must have been technically perfect, one could only speculate that the pilot might have been distracted by a bird.
- In August 2006, a training aircraft had an accident shortly after take-off: the Piper PA-28 Cherokee Warrior ( aircraft registration G-BYKR ) broke through a boundary fence and came to a halt upside down on the public road behind it. Despite considerable damage and heavily leaking fuel, the machine did not catch fire, so none of the three occupants were injured.
- On January 15, 2010 at around 2 p.m. local time, the crash of a twin-engine US-registered Piper PA-31 P Pressurized Navajo (registration number N95RS ) into a field near the A4095 road resulted in two deaths. Four teams from the local rescue service and the fire brigade were on site, but it took a long time to lay the hoses due to the remote location of the crash and the icy temperatures, so that the fire could only be extinguished after over an hour and a half.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2014 traffic figures
- ↑ a b Airport History ( English ) Oxford Airport. Archived from the original on October 28, 2008. 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. Retrieved March 6, 2009.
- ^ David Prosser: Reubens brothers buy Oxford airport (English) , The Independent . July 21, 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007 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. . Retrieved March 6, 2009.
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: 'London' airport name change row , August 17, 2009
- ↑ aaib.gov.uk: Accident report EW / C2003 / 12/03 of the investigating authority (PDF; 785 kB)
- ^ Accident report PA-28 G-BYKR , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on May 15, 2017.
- ^ Accident report PA-31P Navajo N95RS , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase , accessed on May 15, 2017.
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