Exeter Airport has announced the appointment as Stephen Wiltshire as Managing Director. Stephen, 47, has been Operations Director at Exeter for the last 12 years and before that was operations director at Blackpool Airport for six years. He started his career as an engineering apprentice with British Aerospace at Filton near Bristol, where he is […]
The first service between Exeter and Newcastle took off for the first time today, as Loganair brings back connectivity between the two cities for business and leisure. Operated using a 49-seat Embraer 145 regional jet, the service will see twice-weekly flights on Monday and Friday throughout winter. Within the airline’s recently launched summer 2021 schedule, […]
Exeter Airport has received the highest possible rating for disability access, having been judged ‘very good’ in an independent annual survey. The UK Civil Aviation Authority has published its fourth annual report on the disability access of the UK’s largest airports. Exeter Airport was among 14 UK airports rated ‘very good’, with a further 16 […]
Ahead of D-Day Exeter Airport was taken over by the US 9th Air Force and had become Station 463 for the United States 440th Troop Carrier Group. Seventy C-47As and seventy CG-4 gliders had arrived in preparation for D-Day. There was insufficient hard standing on the three asphalt runways and taxiways laid in July 1940 […]
