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Jersey Airport is located in the parish of Saint Peter, west northwest of Saint Helier〔 in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. ==History== Air service to Jersey before 1937 consisted of biplane airliners and some seaplanes landing on the beach at Saint Aubin bay. Jersey Airways and Imperial Airways were among those who operated to the island before the Second World War, but conditions were difficult as timetables were governed by tides. It was also difficult to prevent members of the public from walking across the landing area, and any aircraft which had mechanical problems had to be dragged up the slipways until the tide receded. The States of Jersey decided to build an airport which opened on 10 March 1937 with four grass runways, the longest being with a concrete centreline. Concrete taxiways were added during the World War II occupation by the Luftwaffe – they also built hangars, one of which, the Jersey Airlines hangar, is still in existence although no longer used. A tarmac runway was opened in 1952 and the grass strips were closed. A feature of the airport in the 1950s was the traffic control system – traffic-lights were in place to prevent vehicles using the road from Les Quennevais to the Airport when planes were being moved to or from the hangar used by B.E.A. The runway was lengthened several times over the years, reaching its current length of 5,560 ft (1706m) in 1976. The runway is 150 ft wide(46m). Additional taxiways were added several years later to improve access to the one end of the runway. However, due to its restricted length, in October 2007 Thomsonfly announced the removal of some services as it introduced the larger Boeing 737-800 to its fleet.〔(Airline cuts back island flights ) BBC News – 9 October 2007〕 Designated 09/27 in 1952, the runway was redesignated 08/26 in October 2014 due to a shift in the earth's magnetic poles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jersey airport runway re-named as magnetic pole shiftsJersey airport runway re-named as magnetic pole shifts )〕 There were approximately 5,000 aircraft movements and 1.5 million passengers annually at the airport based on 2014 statistics.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jersey Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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