page_title: Brighton City Airport
section_title: RAFA Shoreham Airshow
hierarchical_section_title: Brighton City Airport / RAFA Shoreham Airshow
caption_attribution_description: Shoreham airshow Fleet air arm Fairey Swordfish at Shoreham airshow
context_page_description: Brighton City Airport, also commonly known as Shoreham Airport, is located in the parish of Lancing in West Sussex, England. It has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
  Founded in 1910, it is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world. It is now owned by Brighton City Airport Ltd. The 1930s Art Deco terminal building designed by R Stavers Hessell Tiltman is listed grade II*. The airport is 1 NM west of Shoreham-by-Sea at Lancing in the Adur district of West Sussex. It is situated immediately to the south of the A27 road, between Brighton and Worthing, and immediately to the north of the West Coastway railway line.
context_section_description: The airport used to host the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) Shoreham Airshow (for around 25 years). On 22 August 2015, a Hawker Hunter jet fighter taking part in the airshow crashed onto the A27 road just outside Brighton City Airport, killing 11 people, and the show has not been held since.
caption: Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber at 2011 airshow.
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