Glimpse history through old images of Newcastle Airport, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Today, Newcastle International Airport is the UK’s 11th busiest airport, with more than five million travellers a year.
Let’s take a step back in time to see how it looked in the past.
1980s Newcastle Airport Scenes
From YouTube channel Newcastle Upon Tyne & UK – Video from the past. Scenes of Newcastle Airport in 1985. The same channels also has video of Newcastle Airport in 1967 & 1976.
From the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections comes this footage of the airport in the 1980s.
Concorde: April 1996
On 28th April 1996, Mark Mowbray filmed Concorde at the airport.
The turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner Concorde operated between 1976 and 2003. A maximum of 128 travellers could travel up to twice the speed of sound!
More Pictures of Old Newcastle upon Tyne
Old Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne & Wear, England, enjoyed through historic photos, vintage pictures & archive film. Browse history in these fascinating old images of a bygone era on my Pinterest board at:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/LocalHistoryVideos/newcastle-upon-tyne-old-photos-pictures
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Thanks to Henry Burrows at flikr for the featured image at the top of the page, used under a CC BY-SA 2.0 licence.