Hawarden Airport

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The Chester Hawarden Airport is a small commercial airport in north-east Wales in the county of Flintshire Broughton and north of the village a few kilometers southwest of the English Chester. The airport is presently not served by more airlines on scheduled flights. It is used in particular as a factory airfield of the resident at the airfield company Airbus.

History

RAF Hawarden

At the beginning of World War II was an aircraft factory at Broughton with an attached factory airfield of the Royal Air Force for the Vickers - Armstrongs. Created over her during the war, 5540 Vickers Wellington and 235 Avro Lancaster.

In addition, the Royal Air Force Station Hawarden -based (short RAF Hawarden ) between September 1939 and 1957, the 48 Maintenance Unit, which supported thousands of military aircraft during the period of its existence, has been waiting and scrapped.

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

Hawarden Airfield

RAF Hawarden was closed in 1959 and the operation of the aerodrome was continued civil. In the 1960s, the company de Havilland went on Hawker Siddeley in (HS) and has been for decades manufacturing facility of HS125. The program was later sold, including the brand name Hawker in the U.S. to the company Raytheon, with a portion of production for years remained in Broughton.

In the early 1970s went to HS in the British Aerospace, which extended the factory in Chester, so the then common name for a production facility for Airbus components. With the establishment of the integrated Airbus company in 2000, the aircraft factory became the Broughton Airbus plant.