Hall Caine Airport Hall Caine Airport was an airfield on the Isle of Man and was located near Ramsey . It was named after the author Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH , KBE by his sons Gordon Hall Caine and Derwent Hall Caine , who were the project initiators . From 1934 to 1937 it handled domestic scheduled passenger flights to English , Scottish and Irish airports . By 1937 it had fallen into disuse , primarily due to its location . Operational life . The flat surrounding area made an ideal location for an airfield , and Hall Caine Airport flourished for a brief period before the Second World War . It attracted some attention from Whitehall Securities Ltd , who as owners of United Airways based at Blackpool , wished to commence a scheduled air service to the Isle of Man . Whether they resented paying landing fees to Isle of Man Air Service at Ronaldsway is a matter of conjecture , but by April 1935 , they had commenced a service to Hall Caine four times a day , using Spartan Cruiser s . The fact that the Spartan Cruiser was designed with three engines instead of two , was the cornerstone of the company ' s advertising of their service across the Irish Sea - although they were to later use both De Havilland Dragon s and Rapides , which were twin - engined aircraft . As United Airways Ltd . also flew London - Blackpool twice daily , it was possible to connect London with Hall Caine . In the summer of 1935 , United took delivery of an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy from Imperial Airways who had used the type on the Middle East routes from the early 1920s . The aircraft used by United was a Mk 2 version built in 1929 . Registered G - AACJ and named " City of Manchester " , it was powered by three 420 h . p . Armstrong - Siddley Jaguar IV engines , and its steel - tubed fuselage offered commodious accommodation for those days . The aircraft was converted to carry 28 passengers for pleasure flights around Blackpool , but it was also to be a frequent visitor to Hall Caine when traffic demanded . Nothing quite like it had been seen on the Isle of Man up to that time , and it attracted a lot of attention when it circled twice over Douglas before making its first visit to Hall Caine . Another service was started by Northern Airways Ltd . which , in 1934 , had appeared at Ronaldsway . By the end of that year , Northern ' s owner , Mr George Nicholson , had formed Northern and Scottish Airways Ltd . at Newcastle with a view of developing routes to the Hebrides and the Western Isles . However , on 17 May 1935 , N . S . A . commenced a weekly service from Glasgow ( Renfrew ) Airport to Hall Caine using a De Havilland Dragon . Within six days , Whitehall Securities had stepped in and gained control of all of N . S . A . business , with the result being that the Glasgow service was increased to three times weekly , and by 1 July , it peaked at twice daily . A daily service was maintained during October and November by which time the Glasgow route had covered 54 , 000 miles , carrying 1 , 957 passengers and 19 . 9 tons of freight . A mail service was also inaugurated for a brief spell in August and September 1934 , by Railway Air Services , and taken over by Blackpool and West Coast Air Services from February to October 1935 . From 1 November , United Airways secured the main contract from the Post Office which was then passed on to their subsidiary Northern and Scottish as a result of a round of amalgamation s which took place at the end of 1935 . United Airways Ltd was wholly amalgamated with Spartan Airways and Hillman Airways , and the three names were replaced with British Airways Ltd . This company was to join Imperial Airways in 1940 thus forming the British Overseas Airways Corporation . As the mail service continued , the Post Office insisted that all air mail letters from Douglas and the south of the Island were to be handled at Ronaldsway , while the mail from Ramsey and the north was to be collected at Hall Caine . This meant a connecting flight between the two airports . In the summer of 1936 Northern and Scottish , now acting for British Airways Ltd . , were operating the following routes involving Hall Caine : Glasgow ( twice daily by the end of September ) ; Liverpool - Blackpool ( two or three flights a day ) ; Belfast and Carlisle ( daily ) . For the winter there was a daily Liverpool - Blackpool - Hall Caine - Belfast - Glasgow service . Spartan Cruisers , Dragons and Rapides were employed with an occasional visit from the Argosy though the latter was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain and was de - registered at the end of 1936 . An article by Mr John Swann in the " B . E . A . Magazine " ( July 1956 ) vividly recalls a spell of duty during September 1936 at Hall Caine when he was standing in for Mr J . W . S . Spinner , the station Superintendent , who was on leave . The Station at that time had an engineer , Mr D . L . Robertson , and two members of staff on air traffic control duty , Mr A . Kelly and Mr C . Collister . The northern plain of the Isle of Man has always enjoyed a better weather record than that of the south where Ronaldsway Airport is situated . Because of its coastal location , fog is a particular problem at Ronaldsway with certain wind directions , and mainly affects the airport during the summer months . During the operational life of Hall Caine Airport there was much friendly rivalry between the crews of the airlines flying to the Isle of Man , and opportunities to gain extra revenue were always welcome . When Ronaldsway was " out " due to bad weather , N . S . A . staff were quick to suggest that passengers get a refund and fly with them to Hall Caine which never suffered from fog . Demise . In 1937 , Northern and Scottish cancelled all services to Hall Caine with the exception of the Glasgow route . In fact , the name of Northern and Scottish was set to disappear when Whitehall Securities amalgamated all their Scottish interests into Scottish Airways Ltd on 12 August 1937 . After this , Hall Caine was not to be used for scheduled services again . There were a few private visitors , but after the coming of war in 1939 it was to disappear without trace . The fact that it was 20 miles from the main centre of Douglas was not in its favour and , as the " Ramsey Courier " of the day sadly observed , " " with many airlines trying to make ends meet , there was bound to be contractions of services " " . On the other hand , Mr . William Lambden in his work , " The Manx Transport Systems " makes reference to the fact that the Isle of Man Road Services Ltd . had carried over 10 , 000 passengers on their special airport route from Hall Caine to Douglas during the 1936 - 37 period . The airfield was again used , albeit briefly , by a local Gliding club in the 1990s , but they relocated to Andreas airfield .