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Airport Parking - Airport History
Please find below a brief history of Liverpool Airport which we
hope that you will find useful. If you wish to make a booking then please
click on the appropriate link on your left. Alternativly you can call
our office, where one of our helpful staff will only be happy to help.
Speke (Later named John Lennon Airport) is one of the UK's oldest operational
airports. At the beginning of World War One Hooton park was requisitioned
for army training purposes, The first unit stationed at the new aerodrome
was a Royal Flying Corps (pilot training unit) who remained until disbanded
in 1919.
In 1927, a local businessman, George Dawson, had acquired most of the
estate with the aim of turning Hooton Park into a major airport for the
North of England. The Liverpool and District Aero Club was formed with
a grant from the Air Ministry and in 1930, it was designated the official
airport for Liverpool and commercial services were run there until July
1933, when Speke on the opposite bank of the River Mersey, achieved airport
status.
Number of terminals: 1
Number of passengers: 2 million
Number of destinations: Over 30
Number of runways: 1
Speke Airport operated from a converted farmhouse, which acted both as
terminal building and, with the assistance of an improvised superstructure
added to an attic window- as control tower. This control tower remained
operational until the present tower was completed in 1937, a new terminal
building in 1939 followed this.
In 1966 a new runway was formally opened by the Duke of Edinburgh enabling
24 hour operations and 1986 saw the opening of a modern passenger terminal
adjacent to the runway on the southern airfield site. (The former terminal
building is now a hotel).
The next major change was in 1990 when ownership of Speke Airport changed
from public sector control to the private sector with British Aerospace
acquiring a 76% majority shareholding. In 2001, Speke Airport was renamed
Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Today Liverpool John Lennon Airport is a wholly owned subsidiary of Peel
Holdings p.l.c., the NorthWest based property company. Peel acquired a
76% majority shareholding in 1997 from British Aerospace with the remaining
shares held by the five Merseyside local authorities. On 9 May 2001 Peel
Airports (Liverpool) Limited acquired the remaining 24% shareholding.
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