page_title: Doncaster Sheffield Airport
section_title: Name
hierarchical_section_title: Doncaster Sheffield Airport / Name
caption_attribution_description: English: Robin Hood Airport (7 of 7) 449952 Previous - http://www.robinhoodairport.com/ - First 449828 ROBIN HOOD This sculpture is on the upper level of the passenger side of the terminal building. For an explanation of the airport name, see this link http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba48/ba48feat.html (once loaded, search the page for the text "Hunting out the remains of Robin Hood").
context_page_description: Doncaster Sheffield Airport, formerly Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, is an international airport at the former RAF Finningley station, in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster within South Yorkshire, England. The airport lies 3 miles south-east of Doncaster and 19 mi east of Sheffield. Handling 1.22 million passengers in 2018, the airport is the smaller of Yorkshire's two large commercial airports.
  The airport opened to passengers in 2005. It was initially operated by Peel Airports, a division of The Peel Group. Doncaster Sheffield Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
context_section_description: Until December 2016, the airport was branded Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield. The "Robin Hood" name was chosen for these reasons:
  The airport has a historical connection to Nottinghamshire (as the parish of Finningley was, until 1974 and the Local Government Act 1972, administered as part of Nottinghamshire) and still resides in the boundary of the Diocese of Nottingham.
  Some later Robin Hood legends, and the popular 20th-century books, films and TV programmes, are set in Sherwood Forest.
  The Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster is closer to what is left of Sherwood Forest than the city of Nottingham is.
  The forests of Sherwood and Barnsdale merged in this area of Yorkshire.
  The name would provide an identity which would raise a lot of attention (if a little controversy) for the airport and create a marketing opportunity.
caption: A statue of the airport's former namesake, Robin Hood
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