Teesside International Airport
The aerodrome began life in January 1941 as Royal Air Force Station Middleton St. George or RAF Goosepool as known to the locals (though it has never officially held that name).The destinations were consistent but the airlines were not, with British Midland, BKS Air Transport, Dan-Air, Autair and Channel Airways all coming and going before the turn of the decade.In November 1969 British Midland returned when they were awarded the licence to fly the London Heathrow route, which they continued operating until 28 March 2009.The 1970s saw a decline in regional services but a growth in holiday flights, courtesy of Northeast Airlines (a rebranded BKS Air Transport) and Britannia Airways, as well as overseas operators such as Aviaco, Spantax and Aviogenex amongst others.[10][11][12][13] However the plan never materialised due to falling passenger numbers after 2006 In late summer 2006, bmibaby announced their surprise departure from Durham Tees Valley Airport.[18] Other developments included new airfield lighting installed and during 2012, six-figure sums spent revamping the terminal building and renovating one of the World War II-era hangars.The news was part of a master plan for the airport site, including residential and commercial development, released in November 2013.This was followed up with a number of consultation events across the region with both the public and business community, the airport then took the feedback into consideration before releasing a final draft in April 2014.The houses were located on land too far removed from the existing airport infrastructure to be used for aviation development, and outline planning permission was received on 29 March 2017.[24] Later in May 2017, Durham Tees Valley Airport introduced a new in-house ground handling service called Consort Aviation.[30] On 24 January 2019, the six TVCA leaders unanimously voted in favour of the plan, bringing the airport back under public ownership after 16 years in the private sector.[31] The takeover came at a time the airport was back on the rise, the 2017 terminal refurbishment was fuelling growth in passenger numbers, Peel had invested in a new £3.5M radar system which went live in 2021,[32] and they had "one of the largest increases in flights at the airport since the financial crash in 2007" lined up from "two major holiday companies", which the Mayor blocked in favour of using the start-up subsidies on solicitors and consults for the takeover instead.[48] On 16 December 2020, a terminal refurbishment was announced including a second lounge, cafe and bar facilities, both landside and airside, as well as opening up previously closed areas.[52] In 2021, Tees Valley Combined Authority announced a move from Cavendish House on Teesdale, Stockton-on-Tees to a new 1,360sq m base at the Teesside Airport site.The new business park, based on the southside of the airport, will include a new 1.5 km link road running direct to the A67 and a new roundabout close to Wilkinson's Plant Centre.The facility includes a purpose-built 21,000 sq ft (2,000 m2) hangar with security screening technology, handling, freight-forwarding, customs clearage and storage.[57] Teesside was the first airport in the UK to scrap the 100ml limit on liquids in hand luggage with the installation of new scanning equipment known as a C3 Scanner.Draken Europe provide electronic countermeasure and aggressor training to the MoD using a fleet of Dassault Falcon 20 and Aero L-159E ALCA[70] aircraft, and built a new hangar in 2022 to accommodate the latter.Thales' calibration and flight inspection subsidiary is based at Teesside; it operates a Beech King Air and Diamond DA42 Twin Star.[3] Combined with the "core" business flights currently operating out of the airport, the owner's long-term hope is of pushing passenger numbers beyond 1.4m in the next decade by attracting a low cost airline.
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