Gloucestershire Airport, the UK’s busiest general aviation airport, is celebrating the successful completion of major upgrades to its crosswind (04-22) and main (9-27) runways, which involved runway resurfacing, the installation of new runway lighting, upgrades to signs and drainage and new below-ground infrastructure in readiness for a new radar system.
The programme of work, which was carefully phased to enable airport operations to continue throughout, was delivered by VolkerFitzpatrick, one of the UK’s leading engineering companies, and project managed by Ridge & Partners LLP.
Gloucestershire Airport’s Managing Director, Karen Taylor joined Cotswold Aero Club’s Phil Matthews, one of the airport’s longest-standing tenants, in the first aircraft to take off and land on the newly opened main runway.
