80 years ago Mancunians ushered in a new age of air travel with a purpose-built airport to the south of the city at Ringway.

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Originally known as Manchester (Ringway) Airport, it opened in 1938 to serve growing demand for air travel and was an important training post for pilots and parachutists during the war.

Manchester Airport officially opened to the public back on June 25th, 1938, when it operated under the name Ringway Airport, ...

Once fully completed for civil aviation use, the Ringway airport and its terminal buildings were officially opened with a public airshow of civil and RAF aircraft on June 25, 1938, and on June 27 ...

Until 1975, the airport was known as Ringway and has been operating since 1938. Today, you would be unlikely to see the gates standing empty as they are here or a lone aircraft on the Tarmac.

Manchester Airport is celebrating its unofficial 75th birthday today. It's 75 years since a Hornet Moth plane made an unscheduled landing there because the airfield it was heading to was ...

Today the airport, still known to locals as Ringway, handles five times that number in a single day. Here is a history of those first 80 years - in five photos. 1.