Elmdon Airport

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Elmdon Airport was the original name of what is now Birmingham Airport, a major international airport serving Birmingham and the West Midlands in England.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Elmdon Airport canonical 1
Ringway Airport 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf airport
alsoKnownAs Birmingham Airport
surface form: Birmingham Elmdon Airport

Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport
surface form: Birmingham Municipal Airport
country United Kingdom
distanceFromBirminghamCityCentre approximately 6 nautical miles southeast
hasCityServed Birmingham
hasElevation about 99 metres above sea level
hasFunction civil aviation
military aviation
hasRunwayOrientation 15/33
hasRunwaySurface asphalt
concrete
hasSuccessor Birmingham Airport
hasTerminalBuilding Elmdon terminal
hasType public airport
historicalNameOf current Birmingham Airport site
historicalRole original airport for Birmingham
IATAcode BHX
ICAOcode EGBB
locatedIn Greater Birmingham and Solihull
surface form: Birmingham metropolitan area

Elmdon
England
Solihull
West Midlands
locatedNear A45 road NERFINISHED
Birmingham International railway station
National Exhibition Centre
opened 1939
openingDate 1939-07-08
originalNameOf Birmingham Airport
ownedBy Birmingham City Council
partOf Birmingham Airport
surface form: Birmingham Airport complex
postwarUse civil airport
regionServed Midlands
renamedInDecade 1960s
serves Birmingham
Warwickshire
West Midlands
terminalBuildingOpened 1939
terminalBuildingStatus partially preserved
terminalBuildingStyle Art Deco
usedAs military airfield
usedBy Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
usedDuring World War II
surface form: Second World War

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Birmingham Airport formerName Elmdon Airport
BEA Flight 609 intendedDestinationAirport Elmdon Airport
this entity surface form: Ringway Airport