Portsmouth Airport (UK)

Portsmouth Airport (UK)

Portsmouth Airport was situated at the northwest corner of Portsea Island on the south coast of England and was one of the last remaining commercial grass runway airports in the United Kingdom.

Sandwiched between the incoming Portsmouth-London railway line and the waters of Langstone Harbour the airport offered little scope of expansion and following some accidents with larger aircraft in the 1960s the airport was finally closed in 1973.

The area has been redeveloped as housing, retail and industrial units but a few of the old aircraft industry companies remain on the site including FPT Industries, Portsmouth Aviation and H&S Aviation.

The area has several roads named after local significant aircraft industry people especially Norway Road and Neville Shute Way both named after the author Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway) who was one of the founders of Airspeed Ltd.


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