Leicester Heliport
Note: I think this is the correct location, but if anybody could kindly confirm this, the advice will be much appreciated.
LEICESTER: Heliport
Operated by: British European Airways
Location: In Leicester now the site of the sports stadium
Period of operation: 1956 only?
NOTES: Part of a network formed by BEA for experimental helicopter passenger services. Lasting from April to November it wasn’t successful although 1,829 passengers and a small amount of freight was carried between Leicester, ELMDON (Birmingham) and Nottingham.
Often forgotten today is that BEA were the major pioneers in British civil helicopter operations, a concept that in the 1950s held considerable promise and indeed, they set up a helicopter airline operation which ran for a while across the Midlands and East Anglia. Without much doubt an enterprise way ahead of its time and not, as it turned out, commercially viable.
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