London Oxford Airport

Oxford ( Kidlington ) Airport

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London Oxford Airport ( OXF IATA Code, ICAO Code EGTK ) is located in Kidlington 11 km away from Oxford and 100 km from London. It is the only civilian use airport in Oxfordshire, as well as the only commercially used airport between the airports of Heathrow and Birmingham Airport. The airport is home to the Oxford Aviation Academy, the largest flight training facility in Europe.

Historically always characterized by the Pilotenaus and training, 2008, the number of aircraft movements decreased to 48,000. The airport is approved annually for 160,000 aircraft movements. In the 1960s, Oxford was one of the busiest airports in the world.

History

The history of the airport dates back to the 1930s. The institution was founded in 1935 by the city of Oxford, during the Second World War, the Royal Air Force taught here a center for pilot training, RAF Kidlington, a. From the 1960s, the airport was particularly known as a pilot training facility. In 1975, the grass runway was equipped with a blacktop and 1988 extended to 1552 meters. 2007, the asphalt pavement was renewed and widened to the current extent. 1981 privatized the public sector of the airport. He was initially BBA Aviation plc and later moved to the owner. The real estate investors David and Simon Reuben acquired the airport in July 2007. He is survived by CSE Aviation Ltd.. operated.

Today, about 35 percent of aircraft movements attributable to the Oxford Airport on the education and training of pilots, ten percent wear corporate aircraft in and the rest is on charter flights and private planes. Due to the relative proximity to London - the journey time to London's West End is about an hour - is an attractive destination airport, the airport for corporate jets. In order to take this into account and to increase the international visibility of the airport was renamed in August 2009 by its old name " Oxford Airport " in " London Oxford Airport ."

The airport is equipped with an instrument landing system and daily from 6:30 clock to 22:00 clock GMT in operation; a night flight ban applies from 0:00 clock.

Incidents

The French billionaire Paul -Louis Halley was killed with his wife and his pilot on 6 December 2003, when 700 came when landing his Socata TBM into a tailspin. The cause of the accident could not be clarified by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.