| 词条 | Derby Airport (England) |
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|name = Derby Airport |type = Public / Military |owner = Derby Corporation |location = Burnaston, Derbyshire, England |opened = 1938 |closed = 1990 |coordinates = {{coord|52|52|20|N|001|33|48|W|region:GB-DER|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map = United Kingdom Derbyshire | pushpin_label = Derby Airport | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Derbyshire }}Derby Airport, also known as Derby Municipal Airport, Burnaston Airport and during the Second World War as RAF Burnaston, was an airport located at Burnaston, Derbyshire, England. Opened in 1938 as a commercial airport serving Derby, it was superseded by East Midlands Airport in the 1960s but continued as an airfield until 1990. The site is now occupied by a Toyota car factory. HistoryThe airport was created at the suggestion of Captain Roy Harben DFC who persuaded the Air Ministry that a flying school was required. Harben was a veteran of the Royal Flying Corps[1] and he was an expert at teaching people to fly.[2] The airport served the nearby town (now city) of Derby and was initially owned by Derby Corporation, who acquired the Burnaston House estate for £21,500 in 1936.[3] The airport was opened for training flights in 1938, with the official opening performed by the Secretary of State for Air, Kingsley Wood, in June 1939.[4] Plans to develop the airport for commercial flights were interrupted by the Second World War, during which Burnaston was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF). In the postwar era Derby Aviation (later Derby Airways) began operating a number of scheduled services from Derby, the first route being to Jersey in 1953. During this time, Burnaston House served as the airport's terminal building.[3] Commercial flights ceased in the 1960s when services were transferred to the newly opened East Midlands Airport nearby. The airfield continued to be used by flying clubs until being closed altogether in March 1990 to make way for the construction of a Toyota car plant.[5] References1. ^Derby Aviation Ltd, PictureThePast, retrieved 8 April 2015 {{Defunct airports in the United Kingdom}}2. ^[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CUlKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22roy+harben%22&dq=%22roy+harben%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GR8lVcu2AoHtULrWgbAI&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA The Complete Flying course by Harben et al], Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Volume 45, Part 2, page 127, retrieved 8 April 2015. 3. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Ross|title=YES To a factory on a greenfield site... NO To rebuilding a Georgian house|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-1336174/YES-To-factory-greenfield-site--NO-To-rebuilding-Georgian-house.html|accessdate=7 April 2015|work=MailOnline|publisher=Associated Newspapers|date=6 December 2010}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=Derby Airport "A link in world friendship"|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19390617/001/0001|accessdate=7 April 2015|work=Derby Evening Telegraph|date=17 June 1939|via=British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Burnaston (Derby)|url=http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/burnaston-derby|website=Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust|accessdate=7 April 2015}} 8 : Airports in the East Midlands|Defunct airports in England|1938 establishments in England|1990 disestablishments in England|History of Derby|Airports in Derbyshire|Airports established in 1938|Airports disestablished in 1990 |
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