Manchester AirportInternational airport in Greater Manchester, EnglandStatistics (2025)Sources: MAG Manchester Airports Group website, UK AIP at NATSStatistics from the UK Civil Aviation AuthorityManchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England. It lies 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre.
Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome53°24′36″N2°16′48″W / 53.4099°N 2.2801°W / 53.4099; -2.2801Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome was the first airfield built to serve Manchester, England. It is now occupied by Rack House Primary School. HistoryMid-1920s: A campaign was inaugurated by interested aviation-minded people, including John Leeming and Sir Sefton Brancker, then the UK minister of civil aviation.
Royal Air Force stationA Royal Air Force station is a permanent Royal Air Forceoperations location. An RAF station houses personnel who work within the Royal Air Force to deliver its outputs as per its mission statement. Traditionally recognised for its Airpower contingent, the RAF also has many support stations, not all with airfields or runways that can accommodate aircraft.
Eccles, Greater ManchesterEccles () is a market town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Salford city centre and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Manchester, split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. The town is famous for the Eccles cake. Eccles grew around the 13th-century Parish Church of St Mary.
Royal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918 through the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Following the Allied victory over the Central Powers in 1918, the RAF emerged as the largest air force in the world.
Ringway, ManchesterRingway is a civil parish on the southern border of Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, it is the only civil parish in the city of Manchester. The population at the 2011 census was 103. Ringway is home to Manchester Airport.
Douglas DC-2The Douglas DC-2 is a retired American 14-passenger twin-engined airliner which was produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company starting in 1934. It competed with the Boeing 247. In 1935, Douglas produced a larger development, the DC-3, which became one of the most successful aircraft in history.
Douglas DC-3The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner that was manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It had a lasting effect on the airline industry from the 1930s through World War II. It was developed as a larger, improved, 14-bed sleeper version of the Douglas DC-2. It is a low-wing metal monoplane with conventional landing gear, powered by two radial piston engines of 1,000–1,200 hp (750–890 kW).
Fairey Aviation CompanyThe Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire that designed important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet. It had a strong presence in the supply of naval aircraft, and also built bombers for the RAF.
ManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough in North West England, at the centre of the eponymous county of Greater Manchester. It had a population of over 589,000 in 2024. It borders the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million.
No. 613 Squadron RAuxAFNo. 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron was an Auxiliary Air Force later Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadron formed on 1 February 1939 at the then new municipal airport at Ringway, nine miles south of Manchester. The squadron served at first in the army cooperation role, and later during the Second World War became a tactical bomber unit. After the war the squadron reformed as a fighter unit and as such flew until its last disbandment in March 1957.
Manchester Barton AerodromeSources: UK AIP at NATSBarton Aerodrome (ICAO: EGCB) is an airport in Barton-upon-Irwell, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) west of Manchester. Formerly known as City Airport and City Airport Manchester, it is known by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as Manchester/Barton and rebranded as Manchester Barton Aerodrome on 3rd April 2023. The United Kingdom's first purpose-built municipal airport, it has four grass runways.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.