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Airport information for Filton Airport Country: United Kingdom Location: Filton Coordinates: 51.30.00N / 002.35.00W IATA Code: FZO Timezone: GMT 0 Direct flights form Filton Airport Direct flights to Filton Airport Find connecting flights to Filton Airport Find connecting flights from Filton Airport

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Bristol Filton Airport or Filton Aerodrome (IATA: FZO, ICAO: EGTG) lies on the boundary line between Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, 4 NM (7.4 kilometre; 4.6 mi) northward of Bristol, England. The field is spring by the A38 highroad to the east, the former London to Avonmouth line to the southward and the Old Filton Bypass route to the north-west. The airport's briny landing track runs east-west. The airport is also named Filton Airfield.

Bristol Filton Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P741) that lets voyages for the public transport of riders or for winging direction as pass by the licensee (BAE Systems (Aviation Services) Limited).

Companies within the bound of the aerodrdome are BAE Systems (who own the airport), Airbus, MBDA and Rolls-Royce, as good as a figure of aircraft upkeep corporations, flying school and the South West of England Royal Mail missive form hangar. It has rider installations for corporate voyages.

Filton has 1 of the longest non-commercial landing track in Britain (8,094 human foot or 2,467 m), having been continued 1st for the maiden voyage of the Bristol Brabazon air hose in 1949 and once again in the late 1960s for Concorde.

The 1st voyage of the Concorde 002 paradigm took location on nine April 1969 at Filton Aerodrome. All other British-built Concordes also used the briny Filton landing track for their 1st voyages.

On 26 November 2003, Concorde 216 (G-BOAF) do the final of all time Concorde voyage from Heathrow, passing over the Bay of Biscay before doing a low pass over Bristol and eventually returning to Filton where it is currently back up on a impermanent apron as a visitant attractive force. It is desired it shall be get together by all the aircraft in the Bristol Aero aggregation at Kemble Airport, in a intention constructed museum.

The length of the landing track and its closed-to-passengers position made it an idealistic scattering location for the land's airborne atomic impediment during the Cold War. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a figure of Vulcan Bombers were posted at the field, on short-notice stand-by.

The airport is fit out with full wireless telephone services (control tower), landing track/taxi strip light and Instrument Landing System (ILS).

History

Opened in 1910, the original 'winging dry land' was turn up near Fairlawn Avenue, next to the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company works, at the top of Filton Hill.

A bear on ex-British Airways Concorde at Filton Aerodrome is open for pre-booked public position.

In 1915, with the enlargement of the aircraft works during World War I, the airport was travel down the hill to its current place. In that yr the Royal Flying Corps opened a ground on the field, access being from Hayes Lane, which directed from Gypsy Patch Lane to the crossroads of Charlton. The early constructions at the ground were wooden field hut, but finally more lasting building were put up, including Barnwell Hall.

During WW1, RFC Filton was chiefly used as an aircraft credence installation.

A flying school was also turn up on the northern side of the field. This finally got division of the West Works of the Engine Division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. The West Works location was cleared in the late 1980s to make style for a Post Office Sorting center.

From 1929 the 501 (City of Bristol) Squadron was ground at RAF Filton. The squadron was fit out with Hawker Hurricanes by 1939 and characteristic division of the British squeezes directed to France. Following a heavy German maraud on the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1940, a squadron of Supermarine Spitfires were ground at Filton.

Prior to World War II, there were only grass landing track at Filton. The independent concrete landing track was set up in 1941.

Prior to D-Day, US constructed aircraft were put together at Filton Aerodrome, from fabrications imported via Avonmouth docks. Filton got a major port-of-entry for US casualties after the D-Day landings in June 1944. Most of the casualties were taken to Frenchay Hospital.

The independent landing track was greatly continued in the late 1940s for the Brabazon labor. Charlton small town was pulverised and the pre-war Filton get around was break up. In the early 1960s, a new get around was build, or so parallel to the old 1, and this afterward got division of the M5 state highway.

The huge three-bay Brabazon Hangar was also built in the late 1940s. At the clip, the depot doors and the railway line stage cover for the aircraft were the biggest in the  world. After a worker was oppressed and assassination while taking a pile in 1 of the turn up of the depot doors, a siren was set up to warn employees when the doors were being functioned.

In 1948 501 Squadron was fit out with De Havilland Vampire jet plane. These were a common sight in the skies around Filton in the early to mid-1950s. 501 was pressured to dissolve on three February 1957. As a protest, 1 of the airplane pilots make up one's mind to wing his aircraft under the Clifton Suspension Bridge, but he crashed into a hillside on the Leigh Woods side of the Avon Gorge, near Sea Mills, Bristol and was assassination.

During the early 1950s British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) winged their Lockheed Constellations and Boeing Stratocruisers into Filton to be serviced in the new finished Brabazon Hangar, then the biggest depot in the  world. Maintenance voyages to Filton lay off when suitable depots were finished at London Heathrow Airport.

In 1960 an RAF Vulcan bomber, draw close from the due west, district at Filton in heavy rainfall. The airplane pilot braked, but set about to aquaplane. He make up one's mind to abort the districting. Although he pull off to take-off and finally district successfully elsewhere, the jet plane blare from the aircraft's 4 Bristol Siddeley Olympus 201 engines badly damaged a gas station at the eastern finish of the landing track, directed auto spinning around on the A38 highroad and bust up the bound fence steel rails. Eye witnesses demanded that the aircraft just cleared the engine test bed next to the Bristol to South Wales railway line embankment. Subsequently, the gas station was travel further northward, to a safer place.

On three December 1962 Bristol Siddeley Engines were using Vulcan XA894 as a winging test bed for the Olympus 22R, which was projected specifically to influence the ill-fated BAC TSR-2 bomber. On that particular solar day, the aircraft was positioned at Filton on an apron near the former RAF station, with the 22R discharging its wash up into a de-tuner. The influence was increased to maximal reheat. An LP turbine record was turn out from the engine, busting 2 fuel armored combats vehicle and get down a fire. A trade name new fire engine positioned in front end of the aircraft was rapidly enclosed in fires. The fire take charge so rapidly that there was small the fire crew is able to do. Both the aircraft and fire engine were destruct. Fortunately, the prove technologists pull off to way out the aircraft so there were no eminent casualties.

After the dissolving of 501 squadron, Bristol Siddeley Engine learners used Barnwell Hall for accommodation and Bristol University Air Squadron elongated to use some of the RAF installations. For many yr a excess BA Concorde was housed in 1 of the depots and cannibalized for saves. Nowadays, many of the RAF constructions are abandoned ship or have been pulverised.

A further downhill extension to the independent landing track was made for the Concorde labor in the late 1960s. There is also a shorter concrete landing track at Filton, which was sometimes used by a Dakota to ferry key BAC force to Fairford during Concorde development in the early 1970s. This landing track will give up to be if a housing estate, be after for the north-east corner of the field, is made.

On 21 November 2006, a public research seeing was maintained with South Gloucestershire Council to talk about the construction of 2,200 places on the northward side of the field.

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