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Edinburgh Airport Through Time, EPUB eBook

Edinburgh Airport Through Time EPUB

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The land around Turnhouse Farm was converted to a military airfield in 1916 following a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh.

Known as RAF Turnhouse after 1918, the site served as a base for fighter squadrons defending Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth.

Edinburgh Corporation first expressed interest in February 1944 in operating civilian flights from Turnhouse after the war and in 1946 British European scheduled the first flight between Edinburgh and London.

Turnhouse officially opened as a civil airport in 1949 but the site was not fully demilitarised until 1960.

Passenger numbers began to increase and in 1976 a new runway was built.

Between 1983 and 1984 passenger numbers at Edinburgh exceeded 1 million; for the twelve months to November 2007, they exceeded 9 million.

In this book, Peter C. Brown tells the story of Edinburgh Airport using a collection of period and modern images.

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