Brough Aerodrome

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Brough Aerodrome
IATA: none – ICAO: EGNB
Summary
Airport type		Private
Operator		BAE Systems
Location		Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire
Elevation AMSL		12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates		53°43′11″N 000°33′59″W / 53.71972, -0.56639
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
12/30	1,054	3,458	Asphalt
06/24	631	2,070	Grass
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Brough Aerodrome (ICAO: EGNB) is located at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The site was first used by the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company during World War I for the testing of seaplanes.

In 1949, the company changed name to Blackburn & General Aircraft Limited, which built a number of aircraft at Brough, including the Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft and the Blackburn Buccaneer maritime strike aircraft.

In the 1960s, the company became part of Hawker Siddeley Aviation and the site continued with the production of the Buccaneer.

The company became part of British Aerospace and later BAE Systems and the site continues to build and support military aircraft. Until the end of production, BAE Harrier's were built at Brough. The airfield closed in the early 1990s after the daily shuttle flights to BAe Warton ended due to cost-cutting. Continuing to this day, variants of the BAe Hawks are built at Brough, but have been transported by road to BAe Warton for test flying.

On 7 September 2007 the company announced that it intended to fly all Hawk jets from Brough to Warton at a rate of two per month. It is unsure whether the airfield will become fully operational though^{[citation needed]}. On 28 January 2008 flying resumed with the take off of a demonstration version of the Hawk.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Airport information for EGNB at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
2. ^ Airport information for EGNB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
3. ^ Flights resumed at aircraft base. BBC News Online. BBC (28 January 2008). Retrieved on 2008-02-13.

[edit] External links

• Aerial photo at WikiMapia