Fishburn Airfield | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Fishburn Airfield Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Location | Fishburn | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 377 ft / 115 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°41′18″N001°27′51″W / 54.68833°N 1.46417°W Coordinates: 54°41′18″N001°27′51″W / 54.68833°N 1.46417°W | ||||||||||
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  Fishburn Airfield Location in County Durham | |||||||||||
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Fishburn Airfield is a small grass strip airfield in Fishburn, County Durham.
Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated about 12 miles west of Hartlepool. It had a population of 2,454, increasing to 2,588 at the 2011 Census.
County Durham is a county in North East England. The county town is Durham, a cathedral city. The largest settlement is Darlington, closely followed by Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees. It borders Tyne and Wear to the north east, Northumberland to the north, Cumbria to the west and North Yorkshire to the south. The county's historic boundaries stretch between the rivers Tyne and Tees, thus including places such as Gateshead, Jarrow, South Shields and Sunderland.
The airfield was opened on 30 June 1995 by the then local MP and Leader of the Opposition Tony Blair. It was named as "Airfield of the year" by aviation magazine Flyer in 2004 for its welcoming atmosphere and bacon butties. [1]
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997. As of 2017, Blair is the last UK Labour Party leader to have won a general election.
FLYER is a monthly magazine for the UK general aviation community. It is published by Seager Publishing. The Magazine competes with Pilot and advertising-based freesheet, Loop. The headquarters of FLYER is in Bath.
In 2005 the airfield hosted filming for a scene from the Bollywood film Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors [2]
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Hari Puttar is a 2008 Indian family drama film directed by Lucky Kohli and Rajesh Bajaj. The film features Sarika, Zain Khan, Swini Khara, Saurabh Shukla, Vijay Raaz, Jackie Shroff and Lilette Dubey in lead roles. It released on 26 September 2008. The film is a loose remake of the 1990 classic, Home Alone.
