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Shoreham Airport (IATA: ESH, ICAO: EGKA), also known as Shoreham (Brighton City) Airport, or Brighton, Hove and Worthing Municipal Airport is an airport located 1 nautical mile (1.6 km) west of Shoreham-by-Sea and just east of Lancing, West Sussex, near Brighton. Founded in 1910, it is the oldest licensed airfield in the UK. It is situated immediately to the south of the A27 road, between Brighton and Worthing.

Shoreham has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P884) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

The aerodrome was first used in 1910 and was officially opened on 20 June 1911. During World War I the aerodrome was used by the Royal Flying Corps.

The aerodrome became an airport for the adjacent towns of Brighton, Hove, and Worthing in the 1930s. A new terminal building was opened on 13 June 1936. The Terminal Building is still in use and is now a Grade II Listed Building.

During World War 2 the airfield operated a number of military aircraft including Hurricanes and Spitfires, It was used as an air sea rescue base with flying boats and fast RAF power boats. The airfield was bombed by the Germans many times and an Me 109 was shot down by ground fire during one such attack, crash landing near the terminal building. A B17 Flying fortress crash landed at Shoreham airport after being damaged during a raid on Germany, the damage to the old guard house on the north side of the airfield can still be seen.

The landing area was grass until a tarmac runway was built in 1981.

The airport is used by privately owned light aeroplanes, flying schools, and for light aircraft and helicopter maintenance and sales. A number of operators provide sight-seeing and pleasure flights, including the experience of flying in two T-6 Harvard World War II training aircraft. Commercial scheduled flights are available via local operators to Alderney in the Channel Islands and Le Havre and Le Touquet in France.

Once every year in late August/early September, the airport is host to the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) airshow which includes flying and static displays by a variety of aircraft such as fast jets, military helicopters, acrobatic specials, and historic aircraft. A variety of ground displays by local organisations including the local flying clubs, the armed forces, and classic cars and vehicles.

Shoreham Airport has been used in many film productions. A crimewatch type reconstruction was filmed there in 2000 by Meridian television after the elusive Fiona Mont was initially belived to have flown out of the country undercover with her then boyfriend Graham the Baron Hesketh who used to run a flying school there.]

The airport also features two licensed restaurants (with the cafeteria in the main terminal building having a bar that even sells local real ale).

Destinations and Airlines

• Sky South (Le Havre, Le Touquet)

External links

• Shoreham Airport video
• Shoreham Airport (official website)
• Shoreham Airport Historical Society
• Shoreham Airshow homepage
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Maps and aerial photos:

• Template:Getamap for grid reference TQ202054 from Ordnance Survey Get-a-map

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• Windows Live Local aerial view

References

• United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication

• Airports in England