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    Filton Airport or Filton Aerodrome (IATA: FZO, ICAO: EGTG) was a private airport in Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, 4 NM (7.4 km; 4...
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    Filton is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, 6 miles (10 km) north of Bristol. Along with nearby Patchway and Bradley Stoke, Filton...
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  • Bristol Airport may refer to: Bristol Airport, serving the Bristol area, England (IATA: BRS, ICAO: EGGD) Bristol Filton Airport, a former small airport...
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  • derelict runway and safety margins of the former Bristol Filton Airport. The village was located between Filton and what is today the Cribbs Causeway out-of-town...
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    two new passenger lounges. Following the closure of Bristol Filton Airport at the end of 2012, Bristol Flying Centre gained fixed-base operator traffic such...
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  • Catbrain (redirect from Catbrain, Bristol)
    of 2022. At the bottom of the hill lies the runway of the former Bristol Filton Airport. The area belongs to the postcode area BS10. "Cat's brain" is a...
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  • YTL Arena Bristol is a proposed 19,000-capacity indoor arena, to be located at the former Filton Airfield’s Brabazon hangar. Original plans were for the...
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    AB Airlines (redirect from Air Bristol)
    at Belfast International Airport, Stansted Airport and Bristol Filton Airport. A base was opened in 1994 at Shannon Airport to operate flights to London...
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    flight, returning to Bristol Filton Airport as the centrepiece of a proposed air museum which is planned to include the existing Bristol Aero collection (including...
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    Bristol Siddeley was purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1966, who continued to develop and market Bristol-designed engines. The BAC works were in Filton, about...
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    speeds back over the north Atlantic followed by a fly-past over Bristol Filton Airport before landing there in front of a crowd of more than 20,000 people...
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    cargo flights from N'djili Airport to various destinations within the country. Most aircraft were built by Bristol at Filton, but 30 were built at Belfast...
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    design team and delayed progress on the project. Bristol's existing factory at Bristol Filton Airport proved to be too small to handle what was one of...
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    North Filton and Henbury. FOSBR suggest this would help services along the Severn Beach Line, allowing a Bristol Temple Meads-Avonmouth-Bristol Parkway...
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  • was formed in August 1995, and operated a Eurocopter EC135 from Bristol Filton Airport. In July 2013, the unit was subsumed into the National Police Air...
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    The Bristol Type 170 Freighter is a British twin-engine aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as both a freighter and airliner....
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    Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport, also known as Whitchurch Airport, was a municipal airport in Bristol, England, three miles (5 km) south of the city centre...
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    T2 providing law enforcement and medical assistance in the Avon and Somerset Police, and Gloucestershire Police areas, based at Bristol Filton Airport....
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    identical components. R2052 was initially operated by Bristol for testing purposes while it was based at Filton Aerodrome. Early modifications to R2052 included...
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  • List of airports by IATA airport code: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z The DST column...
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    the 12th century, when the centre of population of an older village named Filton, Filwood or Felton, west of the present village, moved to the present site...
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  • services run from Bristol Temple Meads in the centre and Bristol Parkway in the north, where the line was electrified in 2018. The Filton Bank from central...
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    1.3 in a dive. In October 1955, Javelin FAW.1 XA564 was sent to Bristol Filton Airport to act as a testbed for the fitting of the Olympus. In the summer...
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    Henbury Line with stations at Ashley Down, Filton North and Henbury. The lines would have services to/from Bristol Temple Meads, and were each expected to...
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    Concorde, makes its last ever flight from Heathrow Airport in London to Bristol Filton Airport. December 5 – 2003 Stavropol train bombing: A suicide...
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    1951. On the 21 March 1950 a Bristol Freighter (Registration: G-AHJJ) on a test flight took off from Bristol Filton Airport. The aircraft crashed near Cowbridge...
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    Clapton-in-Gordano, Shipham, Backwell, Naish, Dyrham Park, Filton Airfield and in Whitchurch (when it was Bristol's airport), and a 1983 RAC Rally stage was held at Ashton...
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    honour" above Bristol, passing over Portishead, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare, Bristol Airport and Clifton Suspension Bridge, before landing at Filton, soon after...
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    Ulster Aviation Society in late 2022. Sycamore HR.14 XL824 – Aerospace Bristol, Filton. Sycamore HR.14 XL829 – The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare...
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    the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2011. Biggin Hill Airport Website Subterrannea Britannica Interactive map of operational airfields...
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