The closure marks the tip of an period for the Warwickshire web site.
The closure marks the tip of an period for the Warwickshire web site. (Picture: Getty Photos)
An airport in Warwickshire is ending all flights from at the moment (Saturday, Could 9) after the most effective a part of a century in operation. Coventry Airport, situated within the village of Baginton, opened as Baginton Aerodrome in 1936 and has remained an vital aviation hub within the area since.
Not lengthy after it opened, it turned an RAF airfield that performed a key position within the defence of Britain throughout World Conflict 2, and over time has been used for flight coaching, basic aviation and industrial flights. Within the noughties it hosted Thomsonfly and Wizz Air flights to numerous locations throughout Europe. However the airport struggled amid the competitors with close by Birmingham Airport and these companies ceased in 2008.
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It has been working in varied varieties for 90 years. (Picture: PA)
An unlimited multi-billion-pound manufacturing web site might be constructed there. (Picture: PA)
In 2010, the location was purchased by its present house owners The Rigby Group.
Then in late 2025 it was confirmed that the airport would shut with Rigby partnering with Coventry Metropolis Council on a public-private three way partnership to exchange it with GreenPower Park, an unlimited manufacturing hub that may embody the UK’s largest battery manufacturing facility.
The airport beforehand introduced it will finish all flights on Could 9, and that it will formally shutter ceaselessly on June 11. A spokesperson from the CAA beforehand stated: “Coventry Aerodrome has given formal discover to us of its plan to shut the airport completely with impact from 11 June 2026.”
Addressing the airport’s notification to the CAA, The Rigby Group stated in a press release: “This procedural submission, first envisaged when native planning approval for Inexperienced Energy Park was granted in 2022, permits the following part of infrastructure work for the location to proceed.”
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Jim O’Boyle, the councillor answerable for jobs and regeneration on the native authority stated: “What we need to see are hundreds of jobs created right here, giving the world an financial carry.”
The £2.5billion web site is described as a “place the place like-minded companies can collaborate, innovate and scale subsequent technology applied sciences”.
“With a devoted energy provide of as much as 230MVA, drawn from wholly renewable sources, GreenPower Park will set the usual for inexperienced manufacturing,” the challenge’s web site says.
It is stated to have the potential to create 6,000 jobs, and drive long run financial development in Coventry and Warwickshire.
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