Where was the first commercial airport in the United Kingdom located?

Answer 1

Shoreham airport

The airport at Shoreham may not be everybody’s first-choice departure point for foreign climes (although you can fly to Paris from there), but its place in England’s aviation history is assured. For Shoreham was the first commercial airport – or aerodrome, as we called them then – in the country, established in 1911.

Answer 2

Mount friendly Airport is in the Falklands.equipped in the aftermath of the 1982 conflict it takes 2 flights each and every week ferrying forces & civilian workers between the united kingdom and the islands. it is likewise the main significant militia base on the islands for some 2000 human beings.

Answer 3

A tale from that period of Croydon Airport circa 1937

Croydon Airport was its usual interesting scene of activity and luckily the twice weekly Imperial Airways service to the Far East was pulling in front of the terminus to load its passengers.
Its huge wood and canvas frame supported four rotary engines and they made the blurred rotation of the polished wooden propellers an excellent contrast against the aluminium cylinders.
It seemed to be out of place and certainly out of period with the other aircraft seen on the field. They had shapely contours and were built with modern materials finished in bright paint work.
Their presence seemed to shout, 'I'm flying,' whereas the 'Hannibal' seemed to impart a feeling of weight and slow pondering safety.
I was relieved to see the appearance of a six seater, red painted De-Havilland in the background and a Lysander taxiing in after landing. Both looked positively rakish when framed by the Hannibal's cloth and wood wings.
Charles was counting the sleek aluminium, mono winged German aircraft as they landed and declared they outnumbered all the other aircraft by three to one in the short time we had been there. Mumbling to himself, he said,
'John's right. That's what they are doing.'

When I asked what he meant, Charles told me of John's theory.
On his visit to Germany John was invited to see how the boys in Germany spent their weekends. Flying, or gliding to be precise was very popular and John thought the organisation was too militaristic and disciplined to be a leisure activity. He concluded he was watching fighter or bomber pilots being trained!
'Look Bill look!
That's the third German plane to land in an hour and none of them have more than half a dozen passengers.
They are practising a flight plan.
They are practising flying to London.'
Charles was beside himself, and visibly concerned by his impromptu deduction. I looked harder at the cumbersome outlines of the Hannibal's outdated airframe against the aerodynamic profiles of the German plane and winced.
I had built a large number of different kit aircraft funded by the sale of my hand painted tri-winged German fighter planes made from bundled firewood.
Being knowledgeable on current aircraft frame trend, I appreciated the Hannibal was a flying joke compared to a German aircraft. A fact that would have been laughable if it was not so serious for Britain.
A true story.

Answer 4

Heathrow

Answer 5

Croyden or Croydon South London

Answer 6

Heathrow?

Answer 7

Squires gate,Blackpool,followed by Barton Lancs.

Answer 8

that would be Heathrow Airport.

Answer 9

heathrow of course

Answer 10

I'm fairly sure it was Croyden.