Facilities
Air Southwest had its management head office at the airport, but announced that 12 jobs would be lost and its Plymouth office would close, moving instead to Humberside Airport, which is the main operations base for Eastern Airways. Its main maintenance base was moved to Newquay early in 2011. When Brymon Airways existed, its head office was in Brymon House within the airport perimeter.
An RAF Chinook was forced to make an emergency landing at Plymouth Airport on 25 Nov 2011. It was the fifth such landing in ten days. Flag Officer Sea Training(FOST) helicopters will now operate from HMS Raleigh in Cornwall but be based at Newquay.
The airport in its entirety was closed on December 23, 2011 due to the present owners, Sutton Harbour Holdings making a case that the airport was non-viable. As from this date, there was no ATC, navigation aids, runway or fire cover.
Concern has been expressed about operation of the Devon Air Ambulance with the closure of the airport - for example no night flights are allowed at nearby Derriford Hospital. Airport leaseholder Sutton Harbour Holdings is to go ahead with an auction of the aerodrome's equipment in July 2012. In June 2012, any decision on the future of the airport was postponed until 2013 by Plymouth City Council.
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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