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Southampton Airport Through Time (Paperback)
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Southampton Airport Through Time (Paperback)
Series: Through Time
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Southampton Airport boasts a long history, with the first aircraft
taking off from the original site at Stoneham Farm in 1910.
Requisitioned by the War Office in 1917 as an aircraft assembly
area, it was given to the US Navy to develop. The current airport
was established in 1932, and was the test bed for R. J. Mitchell's
prototype Spitfire. The airport was commissioned as HMS Raven in
1939, and subsequently spent most of the war in service with the
Royal Navy. Regular air services returned in 1945, and by the early
1950s Southampton was one of the busiest airports outside of
London. Despite the nationwide slump in air passenger traffic
during the 1970s, huge investment was made by its owners Airports
UK Ltd, and a decade later it was purchased by the British Airports
Authority. Currently owned by Heathrow Airport Holdings, it is
steadily climbing the ranks of the UK's busiest airports.
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