2000

SW4831 : Penzance Heliport

taken 24 years ago, near to Gulval, Cornwall, England

This is 1 of 11 images, with title Penzance Heliport in this square
Penzance Heliport
Penzance Heliport
Unable to fly to St Mary's SV9110 : Taking off by helicopter from St Mary's Isles of Scilly from Lands End Airport SW3728 : Lands End Airport because of very bad weather, we were bussed back to Penzance to catch a helicopter.
Helicopter services from Penzance to St Mary's.

The world's oldest passenger helicopter service started 1st May 1964 when BEA Helicopters Limited operated the first service between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly with a Sikorsky S-61.

Penzance Heliport was situated by the A30 a kilometre northeast of Penzance. It hosted scheduled flights to the Isles of Scilly, with a connection to the railway network at Penzance railway station by a special bus service. The heliport had a single concrete landing pad, which was 30m × 30m (98ft × 98ft), inside a 373m × 45m (1224ft × 148ft) grass strip.

Due to the high costs of maintaining the service and falling passenger numbers, British International Helicopters ceased the operation of the helicopter route on 31 October 2012. The company announced that it intended to sell the Heliport to a supermarket chain and relocate to another site in West Cornwall to raise funds, although no suitable alternative site was found in time to save the service.

Work on demolishing the heliport and constructing a new Sainsbury's on the site started in 2013.


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Category: Heliport
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Penzance Heliport [26] · Helicopter [9] Other Photos: · Lands End Airport Title Clusters: · Penzance Heliport [11] ·
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SW4831, 140 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Gerald England   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 3 April, 2000   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 5 January, 2009
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 486 312 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:7.6836N 5:31.0820W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 486 313
View Direction
Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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