Lulsgate Bottom (Bristol) (Broadfield Down)
Major
| Also known as: | Bristol Airport / Bristol International Airport / Broadfield Down Aerodrome / Lulsgate / Lulsgate Bottom Aerodrome / RAF Broadfield Down / RAF Lulsgate Bottom / RAF Station, Lulsgate Bottom |
| County: | North Somerset |
| Current Status: | Aviation |
| Date: | Opened September 1940 |
| Current Use: | Active |
| Used By: | RAF / Civil |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/07/2013):
- Bar Zero9
- Burger King
- Caffe Ritazza
- Claire's Accessories
- Collection
- Dexters Restaurant
- Flying Visit
- Seafood Bar
- Servisair
- Soho Coffee Co.
- South West Airports Limited
- Starbucks
- Subway
- Superdrug
- Travelex
- WHSmith
- WHSmith Books
- World Duty Free
Notable Past Associated Organisations:
- Bristol Motor Cycle and Light Car Club
Main unit(s) present:
- No 3 FIS
- No 3 (P) AFU
- No 7 FIS (Advanced)
- No 10 EFTS
- No 286 Sqn
- No 1540 BAT Flight
- Air France
- Air Malta
- Air Southwest
- Air Wales
- Airways International Cymru
- Airworld
- APC Flying Group
- Aurigny Air Services
- BA Connect
- BH Air
- Blue Islands
- BMI Regional
- bmibaby
- Bristol Air Taxis
- Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club
- Bristol Mercury Flying Group
- British Airways
- Brussels Airlines
- Brymon Airways
- Cambrian Airways
- Channel Airways
- Continental Airlines
- Dan-Air
- Derby Airways
- Eastern Airways
- easyJet
- EuroManx
- First Choice Airways
- Flybe
- flybmi
- Hamburg International
- Helvetic Airways
- Kenya Airways
- KLM Cityhopper
- Monarch Airlines
- MyTravel Airways
- Ryanair
- SN Brussels Airlines
- Station Flight, Lulsgate Bottom
- Thomas Cook Airlines
- Thomson Airways
- TNT Airways
- TUI Airways
- Viking Airlines
The old terminal building and control tower at Lulsgate Bottom, 3 May 2010.
The control tower at Lulsgate Bottom, 4 May 2010.
The control tower at Lulsgate Bottom, 4 November 2013.
The old terminal building at Lulsgate Bottom, 25 July 2014.
Cars being driven across the airfield in 1951, a time between the RAF leaving and the site becoming Bristol Airport. Courtesy of British Pathé
A short history of Bristol Airport. Courtesy of Bristol Airport UK
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