Talk:List of airports in the United Kingdom

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This non-article page is within the scope of WikiProject Aviation, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles related to aviation. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.	Aviation Portal
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating.
Additional information: Airports WikiProject

I've added Staverton and Fairford because I've been to airshows at both, so I'm fairly confident there are airfields there. Any ideas about what to do about the huge number of WW II airfields that eventually became defunct? From my own knowledge, in Worcestershire there's Honeybourne (A Wellington bomber base in WW II , now an industrial estate), Perdiswell (now a sports centre), Throckmorton (a former training base in WW II, a Vulcan Bomber base up to the 70s, in the UK news recently as a possible site for an asylum seekers camp), Defford (used in WWII for test flights of the radar systems being developed down the road at Malvern, now has an interesting set of radar & satellite dishes and an interferometer link with Jodrell Bank observatory): in Gloucestershire there was Moreton-in-the-Marsh (now the national firefighters training college), and Stoke Prior (formerly a glider base, now an industrial estate). This is not an exhausive list, even for this small area... Malcolm Farmer 23:38 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Contents 1 Bold / Non-bold 2 RAF 3 Updates 4 Town 5 Organisation 6 World Aero Data

[edit] Bold / Non-bold

Just curious, I was adding Dundee Airport and I noticed some airports are in bold and others not. What is the pattern for this? --Colin Angus Mackay 10:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just to answer my own question. A little investigation found this "(IATA coded airports in bold)" in the history comments. --Colin Angus Mackay 20:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RAF

Should the RAF bases be named "RAF Benson" etc ?

[edit] Updates

I found this list very confusing and so must have the general reader. As an example there is an article on "Benbecula Airport" but the list had the link pointing to "Benbecula". I've fixed those so now they point to the airport even if that means having a red link. At the same time rather than sort by airport name, which can be done by looking through the category, I have done as other lists of airports and sorted by community served. For references I have used in order of preference the Governments Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP), World Aero Data: United Kingdom, FallingRain.com: Airports in the United Kingdom, The Airport Guide: United Kingdom, A-Z World Airports Online: United Kingdom, official sites and Airports in the United Kingdom. The AIP is the reason that you get the odd airport names such as "Londonderry/Eglinton Airport" for the "City of Derry Airport". Governments in several countries appear to have different names than the one used by the airport operator. I think it may be an ICAO reason. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Town

The town entries look a bit daft for military airfields ! should we remove them MilborneOne 13:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

See question below. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Organisation

Could this list be organised by county or something? It's a bit useless as it is. --88.110.189.21 20:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Support other comments made, it is very difficult to find an airport as the town is not the first thing you think of (and most of them are not relevant (military, small and manufacturer's airfields) - can we just change this to alphabetic order - any comments from watchers. MilborneOne 12:06, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

If it's in alphabetical order by airport then the list is unnecessary. All you would need is a redirect to Category:Airports in the United Kingdom as it's already in that order. There are several "List of airport in Country" on Wikipedia and they are usually by town name. Sometimes they are also sorted by region and this would probably work well for this list as, England, Northen Ireland, Scotland and Wales (it could be broken up to four seperate lists to reduce size). I would really oppose removing any just because they are small, etc. The list is supposed to be complete not a partial list. In answer to the question below this was not intended to be a finished list but the links to the WAD, etc were to provide an easy source for completing the missing airports. For an idea of what else could be included look at List of airports in British Columbia as an example. And while I did create that one, I got the idea of sorting by town from other airport lists on Wikipedia. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

The current listing is a big improvement, but the England section is still too long. Subdividing based on the Regions of England would be good. --88.110.227.30 19:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Might be a good idea but even people in England wouldnt know which regions was were!!.MilborneOne 19:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Aero Data

Should the links to World Aero Data be on the article page and not on this list ? MilborneOne 12:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

See above question. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)