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Skylive Airshow Durham Tees Valley Review

Posted on June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by admin

Saturday 28th May saw the return of an airshow to Teesside after more than 26 years, with the Skylive Airshow held at Durham Tees Valley Airport. An estimated 18,000 people attended the event, with many purchasing tickets in advance, and plenty buying on the door on the day. The gates opened at 9am and the Friends of Durham Tees Valley were there to represent the ...

Why The Skylive Airshow is Great For Our Region

Posted on May 25, 2016June 1, 2016 by admin

The Skylive Airshow is almost here! It takes place at Durham Tees Valley Airport on 28th May. The show is going to be an amazing day for everyone, and we think it will do an enormous amount of good for our airport. Here's why: Everyone remembers the Teesside Airshow. It's back! It's 26 years since the last Teesside Airshow. What had been a fixture for thousands o...

Join Us

Posted on March 31, 2016August 3, 2019 by admin

Joining Friends of Teesside International Airport is easy and gives you access to a community of people who are committed to working alongside their local airport. Our membership includes local people, business owners, pilots, people who work on the airport site and includes male and female, both young and old. All are welcome! We are 100% independent, but work closely with...

FoDTVA AGM

Posted on February 9, 2016 by admin

The 2016 annual general meeting (AGM) for Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport took place at the Old Armoury Cafe at Durham Tees Valley Airport on Friday 5th February. The meeting was a chance to elect our leadership for the coming year. The Chairman role is again filled by Brian Robinson, who enters his second year at the helm of the group. All existing committee mem...

NPAS Tees Valley visit

Posted on December 12, 2015 by admin

Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport visited the Tees Valley division of National Police Air Services at the airport on Friday, 4th December. Our hosts for the evening were Pilot Eddie Doyle, and Tactical Flight Operators Alex Campbell and Paul Jeavons. The visit began with a short video presentation on what NPAS do and how they operate, followed by a talk from the crew and...

Serco IFTC / South-side visit

Posted on December 10, 2015 by admin

We had a number of requests from our members to visit the Serco International Fire Training Centre facility on the airports south-side, as well as the entirety of the south-side to view where the Lancaster bombers used to park during WWII. On 14th June, we went over there, starting with Serco where we were hosted by the fantastic Chris Brown who explained the entire operation i...

RAF Leeming Base Visit

Posted on December 10, 2015December 10, 2015 by admin

On 19th March 2015, FoDTVA visited RAF Leeming for a base tour. The tour began with a visit to the Historic Training Facility where a video presentation was enjoyed by all followed by a look around the room itself, from here we went on to the sad, but very interesting Tornado "reduce to produce" facility operated by BAe Systems, then ending the visit with 100 Squadron where ...