Weston Airport or Aerfort Weston in Irish, is a publicly licensed executive airport located on the R403 regional road at Leixlip, County Kildare 8 NM (15 km; 9.2 mi) west of Dublin, in Ireland. Its traffic is primarily business/executive as well as private and commercial training.
Formerly developed by Jim Mansfield, the airport was seized by the National Asset Management Agency in 2011.
Weston Aerodrome was originally founded in 1931 (licensed c...
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Weston Airport or Aerfort Weston in Irish, is a publicly licensed executive airport located on the R403 regional road at Leixlip, County Kildare 8 NM (15 km; 9.2 mi) west of Dublin, in Ireland. Its traffic is primarily business/executive as well as private and commercial training.
Formerly developed by Jim Mansfield, the airport was seized by the National Asset Management Agency in 2011.
Weston Aerodrome was originally founded in 1931 (licensed circa 1937) by Darby Kennedy, who, from 1946, operated a de Havilland Dragon and several Dragon Rapide aircraft commercially from the Weston flying field, operated under the name Weston Ltd. The charter flights frequently took the biplane airliners to airfields in the United Kingdom. The commercial flight operation ceased in the late 1950s.
Also operated from the airfield was a flying school for private pilots with several Tiger Moth trainer biplanes, an Auster high-wing monoplane and from 1960 two Morane-Saulnier-Rallye four-seater low-winged...
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