Landing the Dash-7 at Docklands (London City Airport)

London City Airport was first proposed in 1981 by Reg Ward, who was Chief Executive of the newly formed London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) that was responsible for the regeneration of the area. He in turn discussed the proposal with Sir Philip Beck (Chairman of John Mowlem & Co plc) and the idea of an airport for Docklands was born. By November of that year Mowlem and Brymon Airways had submitted an outline proposal to the LDDC for a Docklands STOLport city centre gateway.

On 27 June 1982 Brymon Captain Harry Gee landed a de Havilland Canada Dash 7 aircraft on Heron Quays, in the nearby West India Docks, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the STOLport project. Later that year the LDDC published a feasibility study, an opinion poll amongst local residents showed a majority in favour of the development of the airport, and Mowlem submitted the application for planning permission.

London City Airport (IATA: LCY, ICAO: EGLC) is a single-runway STOLport, an airport for use by STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) airliners, and principally serving the financial district of London. It is located on a former Docklands site, 6 NM (11 km; 6.9 mi) east of the City of London, opposite the London Regatta Centre, in the London Borough of Newham in East London, England. It was developed by the engineering company Mowlem in 1986/87. In 2008 London City was the fifth busiest airport in terms of passengers and aircraft movements serving the London area after Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton and the 15th busiest in the UK.

http://www.lcacc.org/history/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport

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[dwightjs1]

The Dash 7 is awesome. It can get in and out of places that those regional jets would never dream of going. Just look up the Courchevel Altiport and you'll have a whole new respect for these birds. Still in service all over the world, and with an updated paint-job that some carriers have given them, they even manage to look pretty sleek, and way meaner than the Dash 8 with the extra two engines.

Gimme a Dash 7 over the boring jets that fly in and out of City any day.

[MrPhucdatbich]

@rodjames98 Also nice videos on your channel, I especially like the BAC-111 videos.

[MrPhucdatbich]

@rodjames98 Yeah hence I removed it, I realised what an idiot I looked like myself, sorry about that, it was uncalled for! :)

I still find it a bit insulting about calling the Dash 7 junk though.... There wouldn't be a London City airport without it. So once again, sorry, and I realised that hence I removed it!

[rodjames98]

@MrPhucdatbich Thanks mate! thats your opinion and you are of course, entitled to it, even if you have removed it! Personally although I do post some radical statements on here about all kinds of everyday things, people, and places, I try very hard to avoid insulting people.

[rodjames98]

And to think the airport now handles types like A319, & EMB 195, makes that dash look like a pile of junk!

[guillermovidal1lfb]

It's possible to land-it if you pull speed minimum and a lot of rotation like this Dash!