Bristol Filton Aerodrome (EGTG) lies on the A38 on the border between Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol in the United Kingdom. It is one of the most important centres of employment in the area, encompassing within its site BAE Systems (who own the aerodrome), Airbus and Rolls Royce, as well as a number of aircraft maintanence companies, flying schools and the South West of England Royal Mail sorting depot. The A38 is a major trunk road in England. ... Filton is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, on the northern outskirts of Bristol. ... Categories: UK geography stubs | Bristol | South Gloucestershire ... South Gloucestershire is a local government area in South West England. ... Bristol is an English city and county and one of the two administrative centres of South West England (the other being Plymouth). ... BAE Systems is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ... Airbus S.A.S. is a commercial aircraft manufacturer based in Toulouse, France. ... Rolls-Royce is a set of companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ... Royal Mail is the national postal service in the United Kingdom. ...

At 2.45 km (8,038 ft), it has one of the longest non-commercial runways in Britain, which made it ideal for the maiden test flight of the Concorde 002 prototype on 9th April 1969. With some poignancy, On 26 November 2003, Concorde 216 (G-BOAF) made the final ever Concorde flight from Heathrow, passing over the Bay of Biscay before making a low pass over Bristol and finally returning to Filton where it is now maintained on a temporary apron as a visitor attraction. Here, it is hoped it will be joined by all the aircraft in the Bristol Aero collection (currently at Kemble airfield) in a purpose built museum. The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. ... London Heathrow Airport (IATA airport code: LHR, ICAO airport code: EGLL, and often simply Heathrow) is the United Kingdoms busiest and best-connected airport. ... The Bay of Biscay (French: Golfe de Gascogne; Spanish: Mar Cantábrico) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean. ...

The length of the runway and its non-military-yet-closed-to-passengers status made it an ideal dispersion site for the nation's airborne nuclear deterrent during the cold war. According to former staff, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the airfield had a number of Vulcan Bombers deployed there, engines powered, up for the duration of the crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis Gooney was a tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. ... The Avro Vulcan was a British built jet engined, delta-winged subsonic bomber, once part of the RAFs V bomber force. ...

The aerodrome is equipped with full radio telephony services (control tower), runway/taxiway illumination and Instrument Landing System (ILS). The Instrument Landing System (ILS) is an instrument approach system for landing in instrument meteorological conditions. ...

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