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A PURPOSE-built hangar at Durham Tees Valley Airport is now providing a new home for the National Police Air Service’s (NPAS) Eurocopter. The airport has been a base for police air support operations across the area for almost 20 years and the new hangar, built by Darlington-based steel specialists Prospan, has been provided under a five-year agreement between the airport an...

Skydiving has taken off in a big way at Durham Tees Valley Airport with both experienced enthusiasts and newcomers enjoying the chance to of a unique experience with Skydive St George which will now be operating throughout the summer. Despite some gloomy weather around 30 parachutists took the opportunity to jump from Skydive St George’s specially equipped aircraft on the fi...

A RESCUE plan to ensure the survival of a North-East airport has been published, as passenger numbers on key routes start to rise. Following a two-month consultation, Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) bosses have issued a final version of a masterplan which aims to create 3,800 permanent jobs and support 450 during construction phases. Between 250 and 400 homes are propos...

AN MP is hopeful of a bright future for Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) following positive talks with an airline. Despite previously expressing concern about the direction taken by the airport, Stockton South MP James Wharton said his meeting with KLM suggested “there could well be a future” for DTVA. Mr Wharton met with KLM commercial director, Nicholas Henin, on Thursday mo...

DURHAM Tees Valley Airport is now accommodating people who would rather jump out of a plane than be a passenger on one. A newly established skydiving group, Skydive St George, has carried out the first ever parachute jumps into the airport and plan to give the public the opportunity to do the same by early April. The six-strong team jumped from their plane at 7,000 feet and des...

Durham Tees Valley Airport has published the results of the two-month public consultation over its plans to secure the future of the airport and maximise its contribution to the regional economy. Airport strategic planning director Peter Nears said the results of the consultation, which showed welcome support from for the proposals in the draft Master Plan, were encouraging and...

Delegation of local politicians went to Westminster to hold talks with DTVA owner Peel Group about recently published airport masterplan Teesside MPs have urged residents and businesses to back an economic blueprint aimed at securing the future of Durham Tees Valley Airport. Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson yesterday led a delegation of local politicians to Westminster to hold talk...

A SKYDIVING company has been given permission to operate from Durham Tees Valley Airport this summer. Skydive St George will run commercial parachuting operations, specialising in tandem skydives for beginners, from April. The airport’s chief executive Andy Foulds said the new enterprise will not interfere with existing operations and that safety will not be affected. George Mc...

Work is starting this week on a newly-acquired site at Durham Tees Valley Airport which the airport hopes will help them to "maximise future development." The former hangar building was last used as a sports and tennis centre and sits upon 9.5 acres of land that the airport has just bought. The steel frame of the building is being dismantled and removed this week. by I...

COMMERCE chiefs have thrown their weight behind major plans to revamp an airport. The North East Chamber of Commerce has backed plans which would make Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) an “attractive option to business travellers in the future”. Its members in the south of the region were briefed on the DTVA master plan which includes creating more than 4,000 jobs, buildi...