page_title: Gloucestershire Airport
section_title: Services and facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Gloucestershire Airport / Services and facilities
caption_attribution_description: Gloucestershire Airport from the air, showing runway 27 with newly installed lighting.
context_page_description: Gloucestershire Airport, formerly Staverton Airport, is located at Churchdown, England. It lies 3.5 nautical miles west of Cheltenham, near the city of Gloucester and close to the M5 motorway, and close the name-giving village Staverton. Its operator claims it to be Gloucestershire's largest general aviation airfield.
  The airport is regularly used for private charter flights to destinations such as Jersey and Guernsey. Between 2013 and 2017, Citywing operated scheduled flights from the airport, describing it as "Gloucester Airport" and marketing it as an alternative to Birmingham Airport, Bristol Airport and to a lesser extent Oxford Airport. This was due to the airport's ease of use and fast handling of passengers, compared to its larger counterparts.
context_section_description: Many of the flights to and from the airport are for business purposes, but there are also recreational flights and training flights.
  The airport houses several flying clubs for private pilots including Bristol Aero Club, Cotswold Aero Club  and the Staverton Flying School alongside commercial pilot training from Aeros  and 'kyborne Aviation, together with specialist helicopter trainers JK Helicopter Training, who also provide gift/pleasure helicopter flights. People are able to undertake their pilot's licence training at the airport.
  Executive Aviation Services offer type ratings on Cessna Citation business jets, as well as aircraft acquisition, management and business jet charters to a number of destinations in Europe and Scandinavia using Citation Bravos.
  The airport has a pilot shop, and is also home to The Aviator restaurant and bar. There is also a live video camera, aimed on a bearing of 255 degrees, just south of due west.
caption: Runway 27 from the air in October 2012, showing the newly installed lighting
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