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Durham Tees Valley airport chiefs have described as “extremely disappointing” the news that, for a second time, its bid for funding to support multi-million pound development plans has not been approved. The airport was seeking £4.65million from the Government’s Regional Growth Fund to ‘pump prime’ an overall investment of £46.5million, enabling the construction of a new acc...

Durham Tees Valley Airport is set to become a major centre for the storage, maintenance and decommissioning of aircraft thanks to plans revealed today. Sycamore Aviation, led by local man Kevin O’Hare, has set up its base at the airport and has already begun work on dismantling a number of airliners, using state-of-the art methods to deal with the growing demand for recyclin...

Following our AGM today, FoDTVA are very pleased to announce the following new committee members: Peter Foster - Committee Member Brian Robinson - Committee Member Anne Lacey - Committee Member In addition, the following members have been on the air show committee for a while but have not been displayed on this website until now: Paul Watterson - Air Show Committee ...

The Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport (FoDTVA) scheme was today unveiled to the press and public. Five FoDTVA members, including the Chairman Colin Granton, Vice-Chairman Stuart Reid, Fundraising Officer Claire Gratton, Events Social & PR Officer David Thompson and Information Officer Chris Smith joined Airport Chairman Robert Hough, Airfield Manager Shaun Woods & C...

Durham Tees Valley Airport chiefs have today underlined the importance to the area’s export opportunities of links to the worldwide air transport network. Speaking today at the North East launch of Export Week, held at the airport, Peter Nears, Strategic Planning Director with the Peel Group, described the Tees Valley as the ‘engine room’ of the North East, contributing £10b...

As stongly rumoured just yesterday, Durham Tees Valley Airport today learned that their bid for £5.9 million of funding for the south side freight and industrial project has been rejected by the Governments Regional Growth Fund. The RGF allows companies to apply for 20% of funding for a particular project, which is then reviewed and accepted or rejected by the Government. DTVA ...

  Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport are very pleased to announce the appointment of two new committee members. Barbara Jones will take up the important role of Secretary, representing a significant milestone in FoDTVA's development as well as easing the pressure and workload on the remainder of the committee, who had been sharing the responsibilities prior to Barbar...

  Durham Tees Valley Airport bosses have revealed they're pleased with the routes currently operating out of the facility. Airport management say load factors on all routes have shown an increase whilst Thomson have seen growth in advanced bookings for Summer 2013. This is all in response to news that passenger numbers for August fell 15.1% on the previous year. The fig...

  FoDTVA today welcomed Richard Bowater onto the Committee team. Richard steps into one of the most important roles of any committee, that of Treasurer. Like many of us initial members, Richard is an active aviation photographer and already well known to all of us here at FoDTVA. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the role as he's handled the finances of ot...

  Tonight, Monday 3rd September 2012, the Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport committee held a meeting with Shaun Woods, Airport Manager at DTVA, where we presented our Constitution to him and agreed a way forward for the scheme. Now, following the green light from Shaun, we're going live! Advertising for the support group will begin tonight and any interested persons...