London City Airport is an international airport in London, England. It is located in the Royal Docks, about 6 miles east of the City of London and 3 miles east of Canary Wharf. These are the two centr
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A plaque at Heron Quays DLR station commemorates the 1982 landing on Heron Quay by Captain Harry Gee.
A de Havilland Canada Dash 7 of London City Airways making its steep approach to LCY from the west as another of the airline’s DHC-7s prepares to depart to Amsterdam (1988)
The Airbus A220 is a family of five-abreast narrow-body airliners by Airbus Canada Limited Partnership. It was initially developed by Bombardier Aviation with the program launched on 13 July 2008 and
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…flights, but only for the purpose of training pilots to operate at this specific airport. Only multi-engine, fixed-wing aircraft up to Embraer E195-E2, Airbus A220 and A318 size, with special aircrew and aircraft-certification to fly 5.5° approaches, strict noise limitations and further restrictions are allowed…
An A220-300, the larger and more common variant, shown in Airbus livery
BRJ-X, a four-abreast forerunner concept in early 1996
Despite initial difficulties in finding the right engine for the CSeries, the choice finally fell on the new GTF engine from Pratt & Whitney in late 2007.
CSeries program was launched at the 2008 Farnborough Airshow with the C110 and C130 variants, which were redesignated CS100 and CS300 in 2009.