Cotswold Airport, UK: A New Venue for AeroExpo & RotorTech.

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Cotswold AirportThe airport manager provided a brief overview of Cotswold Airport, our new venue for 2022.

A Gloucestershire airfield steeped in history, Kemble Aerodrome (Cotswold Airport) is now home to a growing Business Aviation & General Aviation (GA) community & a host of successful aviation businesses.

Kemble Air Services Ltd, the owners of Cotswold Airport, is totally committed to making it one of the finest airfields in the country without spoiling the natural charm that abounds on this 532-acre site. The airport enjoys major road & rail connections to London & north & south; it is the aviation gateway to the Cotswolds & wider south-west England.

Best known to many people as the former base of the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic team, the airport has grown considerably over the past few years & since its transformation into a civilian airport in 2001.

It’s a unique airport; you can see everything operating from microlights & lightweight helicopters to larger airliners & commercial helicopters. It’s well-known for the airliner storage & maintenance activities of two of our tenants, Air Salvage International & GCAM, while its core activity is serving a growing business & charter jet market — while remaining a thriving GA airport with six based flying schools as well as being a prime location for visiting GA pilots.

More recently, investment has seen an increase in aviation innovation at the airport, from cutting-edge technology aerospace companies, such as ZeroAvia, to hypersonic jet engine testing & fully synthetic aviation fuel testing.

In terms of operational capability, the airport enjoys a 1972m runway, with RNP instrument approach procedures to both runway 08 & 26 (see our UK AIP entry).

We have also just resurfaced our main runway, reopened our AV8 Café, & positioned our unique ex British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVB ‘Negus’ on a purpose-built pad behind the control tower, & next to the AV8 car park. The 747 will shortly be available for events & film hire.

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