Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield

Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGCN
IATA code	DSA
Coordinates	53 ° 28 ′ 29 "  N , 1 ° 0 ′ 16"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 29 "  N , 1 ° 0 ′ 16"  W
Height above MSL	17 m (56  ft )
Transport links
Street	8 km to the
Basic data
opening	1915
operator	Peel Group
Passengers	1,255,907 (2016)
Air freight	9,341 t (2016)
Flight movements	16,098 (2016)
Start-and runway
02/20	2893 m × 60 m asphalt

The Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield is the airport of the cities Doncaster and Sheffield , it is used for international and domestic services. He owns a runway. It is operated by the British Peel Group .

history

RAF Finningley

The origins of what is now Sheffield Airport date back to World War I , when Finningley opened as the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) military airfield in 1915 . The airfield became the base for Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 fighters , which were used to repel zeppelins .

In the course of the upgrading in the run-up to the Second World War , reactivation and expansion or new construction began in the 1930s, and the Royal Air Force Station Finningley (short: Finningley) was located in August 1936, before the official opening on September 3, 1936 RAF Finningley ) again fighter aircraft, initially light Handley Page Heyford bombers. In the following years and during the war, Finningley was mainly used to retrain bomber crews. A large number of training units and other flying squadrons were equipped with a wide variety of aircraft types, mainly bombers. In the vicinity of RAF Finningley there were a number of other airfields, including RAF Bawtry, RAF Bircotes, RAF Doncaster, RAF Lindholme, RAF Misson and RAF Sandtoft.

Vulcan XH558, 2008 in Farnborough

In the first decade after the war, the base was used as before as a training base for day and night fighter . During the Cold War , Finningley was expanded and became the home of all three types of atomic bomb-tipped V-bombers . The last airworthy bomber from this period, the Avro Vulcan "XH558", was stationed here between 1960 and 1968 at the 230th Operational Conversion Unit .

Whirlwind HAR10, RAF Finningley, 1985

In May 1970, RAF Finningley was subordinated to the RAF Training Command , its 6th Flying Training School , which was equipped with Dominie T1 and (until 1976) Varsity . Jetstream, Jet Provost and Tucano were later used. In those years the station was the scene of an annual " Battle of Britain " airshow and in 1977 the "Queen's Silver Jubilee Air Show" took place here in honor of the Queen .

In addition to the training aircraft, the airfield was also home to SAR helicopters of the Whirlwind HAR10 , Wessex HAR2 and Sea King HAR3 types , as well as the headquarters of the 22nd and 202nd Squadron (both now based in RAF Valley ).

As part of the first round of disarmament after the end of the Cold War in the first half of the 1990s, RAF Finningely was closed in 1996.

Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the airport was sold to the Peel Group in 1996, which converted it into a civil airport. The first commercial flight took off for Palma on April 28, 2005 at 9:15 am . In addition, the BBC - Mockumentary Come Fly With Me was partly filmed there.

Airlines and Destinations

The airport is currently used exclusively by low-cost and charter airlines. Thomson Airways offers most routes to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean region and Wizz Air to Eastern Europe.

In 2007, long-haul flights from Doncaster Sheffield that were discontinued in the meantime were offered. Flyglobespan flew to Toronto , Thomson Airways to Cancun , Puerto Plata and Orlando . The only German connection to Berlin has existed since March 2016.

Basic data

year	Passengers	Flight movements
2005	00600.907	05,380
2006	00948.017	07,591
2007	1,078,374	08,754
2008	00968.481	07,426
2009	00835,768	06,145
2010	00876.153	11,030
2011	00822.877	11,876
2012	00693,661	11,724
2013	00690.351	11,197
2014	00724.885	11,697

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Passenger numbers at all airports in the United Kingdom. (PDF; 79 KB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Freight figures from all UK airports. (PDF; 12 KB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Aircraft movements at all UK airports. (PDF; 157 KB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 .  
4. ↑ Airport data on World Aero Data ( English, as of 2006 )

Web links

• Airport website
• History of RAF Finningleys on the BBC homepage