Coventry Airport – Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Coventry Airport (IATA: CVT, ICAO: EGBE) is located about 6 km south of Coventry city centre, in the village of Baginton, Warwickshire, England, and about 1 km outside Coventry boundaries. Coventry airport is a main hub for Thomsonfly.com, part of the TUI Group. The airport is owned by the CAFCO-C, and is currently waiting for the results of a Public Local Inquiry to build a permanent terminal and passenger facilities to serve up to 2 million people per annum.
History
In 1933 Coventry City Council decided to develop a civic airport on land that they owned to the south-east of the city in Baginton. Coventry Airport was opened in 1936. Armstrong Whitworth, aircraft manufacturers based nearby at Whitley Aerodrome, built an aircraft factory on the airport site soon afterwards.
During World War II the airport was utilised as a fighter station, RAF Baginton, by the Royal Air Force, and was damaged in the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry in 1940.
After the war the airport was returned to civil use as a passenger and freight terminal. In the 1950s Jersey Airlines operated De Havilland Heron and Douglas Dakota aircraft on services to the Channel Islands. In the 1960s British United Airways flew Dakota, Carvair (which also carried passengers' cars) and Handley Page Heralds to the Channel Islands.
In late-1980s, Coventry City Council sold the airport lease to Air Atlantique.
Airport Facilities
Airport Shop Bar Car Hire - Thrifty Car Rental, Budget Car Park Foreign Exchange Max Beans Cafe & Bar Refreshments
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