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Weston Airport or Aerfort Weston is a publicly licensed general aviation airport serving Dublin, Ireland and surrounding areas. It is located at Leixlip, County Kildare 〔 west of Dublin. Its traffic is primarily business/executive as well as private and commercial flight training. == History == Weston Aerodrome was originally founded in 1931 (licensed circa 1937) by Darby Kennedy, who, from 1946, operated a de Havilland Dragon and several Dragon Rapide aircraft commercially from the Weston flying field, operated under the name ''Weston Ltd''. The charter flights frequently took the biplane airliners to airfields in the United Kingdom. The commercial flight operation ceased in the late 1950s.〔Merton Jones A.C., British Independent Airlines since 1946, Merseyside Aviation Society, 1977, ISBN 0-902420-10-0.〕 Also operated from the airfield was a flying school for private pilots with several Tiger Moth trainer biplanes, an Auster high-wing monoplane and from 1960 two Morane-Saulnier-Rallye four-seater low-winged aeroplanes. The airport was upgraded from a grass runway in the 1980s when a tarmac runway was laid. The main terminal was completed in 2005 along with the control tower and other services.. Developed over many years by Jim Mansfield, the airport was taken over by the National Asset Management Agency in 2011.〔http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/namas-weston-airport-starting-to-turn-around-as-buyer-sought-2881162.html〕 In 2015, over 40 aircraft are based at Weston. The airport has 15 direct employees with another 100 indirect jobs arising from airport tenancies and related activities. 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「Weston Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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