Halfpenny Green Airport is not only a flourishing centre for aviation, it also offers companies a superb location to base their business.
With hard and grass runways, the aerodrome is ideal for flying training and hosts four fixed wing training schools, a helicopter school, and a microlight school. Each of these offer trial flying lessons so you can get a feel of what learning to fly is all about.
The majority of aircraft operating from the airport are light aircraft.
History
The airfield was constructed between mid-1940 and early 1941 for use by the Royal Air Force, being initially named RAF Bobbington. The name was changed on 1 September 1943 to RAF Halfpenny Green, to avoid confusion with RAF Bovingdon in Hertfordshire.
The first RAF unit to be based was No.3 Air Observer & Navigator School which flew Blackburn Bothas and later Avro Ansons.
The unit disbanded on 13 November 1945. After a lengthy gap, RAF flying resumed on 5 May 1952 by No.2 Air Signallers School, again equipped with Avro Ansons, the unit disbanding on 13 September 1953.
A ground-based equipment sub-unit of No.25 Maintenance Unit occupied much of the airfield from 1 March 1946 until 15 November 1956.
Following closure of this unit, the airfield lay disused for several years before civil aviation use commenced in 1961.
In 1972: Pilot, Prince William of Gloucester - a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II - and his passenger, were both killed in an Air Race event crash
In 2017: A de-Havilland Vampire aircraft, participating in an airshow, damaged runway 10/28 during takeoff as its jet tore up some of the asphalt surface. The aircraft was unaffected and landed later on an alternative runway.
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