Blackbushe Airport, airport in the United Kingdom
Blackbushe Airport is a small airfield on the A30 road near Yateley in Hampshire, England, serving private aircraft, training planes, and business jets. It has a single runway, several hangars for storage and maintenance, a cafe, and buildings used by flight schools and ground crews.
The airfield was built during World War Two under the name Hartford Bridge, where RAF aircraft including Spitfires and Mosquitos were based. After the war it was renamed RAF Blackbushe, grew into a commercial airport with passenger services to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, then shifted to general aviation.
The name Blackbushe comes from the land on which the airfield was built. Today it works as a meeting point for pilots, flight instructors, and anyone who wants to learn to fly or simply watch planes take off and land.
The airfield sits directly on the A30 and is easy to reach by car. The nearby Yateley Country Park is a good spot to combine a walk with a view of aircraft arriving and departing.
In 2021 the airfield installed one of the first electric aircraft charging stations in the UK for a battery-powered training plane. The community here actively follows new technologies, including electric vertical take-off aircraft that may one day operate from this site.
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