Hangars, now warehouses, at Coventry Airport
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Hangars, now warehouses, at Coventry Airport
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 30 Mar 2024
The airport opened as Baginton Aerodrome in 1936, on land owned by the city. Fighter aircraft were stationed here during the Second World War. After 1945, passenger and freight services began again. Pope John Paul II landed here by helicopter in 1982, celebrated mass and addressed large crowds, during the first ever visit to Britain by a reigning Pope. In 1994-5 there were protests and trespassing by animal rights activists, one of whom was hit and killed by a lorry; they were campaigning against flights exporting calves to the Netherlands for raising in veal crates, banned as cruel in the UK. Passenger flights ended in 2008, though the airport is still used by light aircraft. see Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Airport .
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Image Location
Latitude
52.36962
Longitude
-1.488716