The Airport
Solent Airport Daedalus offers a comprehensive range of services for both General Aviation and Corporate/VIP operators, attracting pilots and businesses from all over the UK and northern Europe.
As one of the oldest established airports in the UK, Solent Airport Daedalus has served flying interests for over 100 years. With its unique history including its significance during the D-day landings it continues to offer stoic support of the flying community in both good times and bad – Solent Airport Daedalus has seen it all in air travel.
With its friendly and personal approach to everything aviation, Solent Airport Daedalus’ facilities are tailored to today’s general aviation needs, with a tarmac runway and taxiways, grass and hard aircraft parking, hangarage, fuelling, on site café and offering a Flight Information Service. Solent Airport Daedalus welcomes all general aviation traffic during operational hours.
Solent Airport Daedalus requires a PPR for all flights, whether the aircraft is visiting or based at the airport. It is the responsibility of the pilot in command to obtain PPR – please do not rely on any third party to do this for you.
The Local Area
Located in a county of contrasts, boasting miles of coastline, two major ports, and served by key domestic and international air routes, the Solent area of Hampshire benefits from impeccable connections in every sense of the word.
Backed by its Enterprise Zone status, Daedalus is the largest employment site in the area and set to become the premier location for aviation, aerospace engineering and advanced manufacturing businesses in the south. Businesses based at the Solent Airport Enterprise Zone benefit from an environment with a location close to the waterfront, proximity to the area’s major road connections and the recently opened QEII Platinum Jubilee Park – a public open space that includes picnic areas and walkways.
Enterprise Zone status brings numerous benefits including a significant package of transport infrastructure both on-site and for the surrounding road networks. Seven of the top ten global aerospace companies have already staked their claim in the Solent region and this brings with it employees with all the key skills but without the cost of London-weighted salaries.
Home to more than 25 marinas, a world-renowned University, the Southampton Boat Show and the Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire is a natural home for the marine sector and contains more than 3,000 marine and maritime companies. Manufacturing is vital to the area and represents almost 13% of all jobs – that’s 2% above the national average. There are over 14,000 manufacturing jobs in machine manufacturing and engineering activities.
Crucially Hampshire is also well-connected in terms of accessibility and travelling further afield. Daedalus lies approximately 70 miles and 90 minutes from London, and within easy reach of the South’s principal motorways: M27, M3 and A3(M); Fareham train station lies four miles from the site.