Rochester Airfield
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Rochester Airport has been established on this site since Rochester Council purchased the land at Rochester Airfield in September 1933 from the landowner as the site for a municipal airport. One month later Short brothers, who had started building aircraft in 1909 on the Isle of Sheppey, asked for permission to lease the land for test flying and thus began the privileged relationship between the local authority and the aviation industry.
Today it is operated by a group of local business men who aim to keep it open to benefit the local community as a business, leasure and training facility.
Supported by PAFRA - Pilots and Friends of Rochester Airport
www.rochesterairport.flyer.co.uk/
Today it is operated by a group of local business men who aim to keep it open to benefit the local community as a business, leasure and training facility.
Supported by PAFRA - Pilots and Friends of Rochester Airport
www.rochesterairport.flyer.co.uk/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Airport,_England
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Coordinates: 51°21'7"N 0°30'12"E
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