Hawarden Airport
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Hawarden Airport, also known as Hawarden Aerodrome, is an airport near Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales, near the border with England and 3.5 NM west southwest of the city of Chester.
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RAF Hawarden in World War II viewed from north-north-west
Photograph of 7 O.T.U. pupils and instructors taken at Hawarden in October 1940, Wing Commander Ira 'Taffy Jones seated in the middle of the front row.
Newly built DH Venom and Vampire aircraft at Chester in 1953 with 48 MU hangars in the background
Airbus Beluga
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The Airbus A300-600ST or Beluga is a specialised wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsize cargoes. It received the official name of Super Transporter early on, but its nickname,
Hawarden Airport
…scheduled passenger flights to the airport; most flights are chartered, or corporate, but the airport has frequent air freight flights provided by the Airbus Beluga to transport aircraft wings to Toulouse, Hamburg Finkenwerder and Bremen for Airbus. Airbus previously considered the A330-300 and A340-500 to require…
The Beluga is based on the Airbus A300 with an oversized cargo hold on top
Airbus Skylink Super Guppy in 1984
Side view of Beluga F-GSTD, climbing with gear retracting, 2012
Unloading the International Space Station Columbus module from Beluga F-GSTC at Kennedy Space Centre, 2006