Southampton Airport Through Time

Southampton Airport Through Time

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Brown, Peter C.
Amberley Publishing
EAN: 9781445687452
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Southampton Airport boasts a long history, with the first aircraft taking off from the original site at Stoneham Farm in 1910. Requisitioned by the War Office in 1917 as an aircraft assembly area, it was given to the US Navy to develop. The current airport was established in 1932, and was the test bed for R. J. Mitchell's prototype Spitfire. The airport was commissioned as HMS Raven in 1939, and subsequently spent most of the war in service with the Royal Navy. Regular air services returned in 1945, and by the early 1950s Southampton was one of the busiest airports outside of London. Despite the nationwide slump in air passenger traffic during the 1970s, huge investment was made by its owners Airports UK Ltd, and a decade later it was purchased by the British Airports Authority. Currently owned by Heathrow Airport Holdings, it is steadily climbing the ranks of the UK s busiest airports.
EAN 9781445687452
ISBN 1445687453
Binding Ebook
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Publication date June 15, 2019
Language English
Country United Kingdom
Authors Brown, Peter C.