• Ramsgate Airport was a civil airfield at Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom which opened in July 1935. It was briefly taken over by the Royal Air Force in...
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    Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th...
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  • a 21-year lease on Ramsgate Airport. The terminal was repaired after wartime bomb damage, and the hangar was extended. The airport was reopened on 27...
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    29 June 1957, G-AGUE of Island Air Services crashed on takeoff from Ramsgate Airport, Kent on a local pleasure flight. The aircraft was written off, but...
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  • Air Kruise were extending the Lympne – Le Touquet service to Ramsgate, as Ramsgate Airport was to be re-opened. In July, the members of Folkestone Town...
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  • Blackbushe Airport, killing 34 of the 35 people on board. 29 June – Island Air Services de Havilland Dragon Rapide G-AGUE crashed on take-off from Ramsgate Airport...
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    For Ramsgate as a whole, see the main article Ramsgate. Ramsgate as a name has its earliest reference as 'Ramisgate' or 'Remmesgate' in 1275, from Anglo-Saxon...
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    seven-seat layout for pleasure flights operated by Jock Maitland at Ramsgate Airport. A nine-seater was under development at Southend to have been fitted...
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    Straight Corporation (category Airport operators)
    headquarters in Manchester Square, London and its main operating base was Ramsgate Airport. It was mainly concerned with pleasure, charter and army co-operation...
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    company, Maitland Air Charter which operated pleasure flights from Ramsgate Airport during 1959 and 1960, eventually using former RAF Percival Prentice...
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    plans were cancelled after the airport's closure was announced Manston's flight path passed over the town of Ramsgate, a seaside resort of some 40,000...
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    village is situated one mile northwest of Ramsgate. The parish includes four hamlets and the former Manston Airport. The village was originally Mannestone...
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    Airfields. 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015. "Guston Road". UK Airfields & Airports. Retrieved 13 January 2021. Laycock, Mike (2 February 2021). "MP fails...
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    First International Flying Flea Challenge Trophy Race was held at Ramsgate Airport, where three French and six British HM.14s attended. Various other...
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    (G-ADMH) in the First International Flying Flea Challenge Trophy Race at Ramsgate Airport, gaining second place behind a lower-powered French Flea in the handicapped...
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    based in Margate and the district also contains the towns of Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Westgate-on-Sea, along with several villages. It takes its name from...
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  • by Air Holdings of Air Ferry. A provisional base was established at Ramsgate Airport. Two Vickers Viking aircraft were purchased from Autair International...
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    KwaMasinenge Informal Settlement Margate Beach Margate North Beach Ramsgate Ramsgate Beach Ramsgate South Shelly Beach St Michael's-on-sea Uvongo Uvongo Beach...
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    village is west of Ramsgate (which is the post town) and to the north east of Canterbury; it lies just south west of Kent International Airport and just north...
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    Lines Ltd Nottingham Airport Ltd Olley Air Services Ltd Palestine Airways Ltd Pobjoy Airmotors and Aircraft Ltd Ramsgate Airport Ltd Royal Air Force No...
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    Challenge Trophy Race at Ramsgate Airport, but retired when an oil pipe fractured. On 29 September 1936, he took off from Portsmouth Airport in his Miles Hawk...
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    into two by the Canterbury to Ramsgate railway line, with a station at Thanet Parkway which opened in 2023. Manston Airport is to the north of the village...
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    structures. Margate was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857 and Ramsgate in 1884. Broadstairs and St Peter's Urban District and the Isle of Thanet...
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  • Syria Mizo Ram, a state in northeastern India Ramingining Airport, IATA airport code "RAM" Ramsgate railway station, Kent, England, National Rail station...
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    into the M2) to Ramsgate via Whitstable and Herne Bay. The road provides access for freight traffic to Ramsgate Harbour, Manston Airport and Thanet Earth...
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  • including Air Kruise, which ran Ramsgate Airport, and Silver City Airways. In 1946, Kennard formed Air Kruise at Lympne Airport. In August of that year, Kennard...
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    Battle of Dover Strait in 1917. When hovercraft ran from Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate, they made occasional voyages over the Sands, where boats could not go...
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    Izingolweni Izotsha Margate Murchison Paddock Port Edward Port Shepstone Ramsgate Shelly Beach Southbroom St Faith's Uvongo Harding is a small town located...
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  • in the past and no longer have scheduled commercial/passenger operations. List of cities with more than one commercial airport "Safdarjung Airport"....
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    station on the Ashford - Canterbury - Ramsgate Line. The new station would also serve Kent International Airport via a bus link. A planning application...
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