The Unofficial Plymouth City Airport Website
1987 runway promotional open day
The 22nd of July 1987 saw the press and local people come to the airport to see various aircraft using the airports newly extended runway. It was the first UK airport to have an instrument landing system(ILS) in use on a runway of this length(1)
The
aircraft on show included(2): (click to view the picture)
D-CBOL Dornier-228 demonstrator 2nd picture (3)
F-WWEI ATR-42 2nd picture (3)
G-AXLG Cessna-310K
G-BCBZ Cessna-337 Super Skymaster
G-BNEH BAE-125-800
G-MATP BAE ATP (flypast) (3)
G-XTWO Embraer Xingu
HB-AHB Saab-340 Crossair
OE-LLP Dash8-100 Tyrolean
G-RANY Cessna-421 Golden Eagle
BAE146-100CC2 Queens Flight(Royal Squadron) (3)
Source
(1) Airliner World, November 2000
(2) George Hobbs
(3) Chris Brenton
