Brough Aerodrome

Brough Aerodrome
IATA: none – ICAO: EGNB
Summary
Airport type		Private
Operator		BAE Systems
Location		Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire
Elevation AMSL		12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates		53°43′11″N 000°33′59″W
Map
EGNB Location in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
12/30	1,054	3,458	Asphalt
06/24	631	2,070	Grass
Source: DAFIF

Brough Aerodrome (ICAO: EGNB) is located at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The site was first used by the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company during World War I for the testing of seaplanes.

Brough played its part in preparing fighter pilots for the Battle of Britain. Yorkshire members of The Few – including local Spitfire pilot Ronald Berry and, for a short spell, high-scoring fighter ace James "Ginger" Lacey – honed their flying skills whilst at the Brough Flying Training School on Blackburn B-2 biplanes.

In 1949, the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company changed its name to Blackburn & General Aircraft Limited and built a number of aircraft at Brough, including the Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft and the Blackburn Buccaneer maritime strike aircraft.

In the 1960s, the company became part of Hawker Siddeley Aviation and the site continued with the production of the Buccaneer.

The company became part of British Aerospace and later BAE Systems and the site continues to build and support military aircraft. Until the end of production, BAE Harrier jump jets were built at Brough. The airfield closed in the early 1990s after the daily shuttle flights to BAe Warton ended due to cost-cutting. Continuing to this day, variants of the BAe Hawk are built at Brough.

On 7 September 2007, however, the company announced that it intended to fly all future Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer aircraft from Brough to Warton at a rate of two per month. It is unsure whether the airfield will become fully operational^{[citation needed]}. On 28 January 2008, flying resumed with the take-off of a demonstration version of the Hawk. At the end of April 2009, an F-35 Lightning II static test airframe arrived at Brough Aerodrome. It is the first such aircraft to be delivered to the UK.

On 27th September 2011, the company announced that it intended the manufacturing of aircraft at Brough to end, effectively closing the world's oldest aircraft factory. A "Battle for Brough" campaign was immediately launched to save the historic site.^{[citation needed]}