Doncaster Sheffield Airport on air tourism and environmental issues. On 24 January 2007, the airport featured in the BBC Two documentary "Should I Really Give Up Flying?", with Doncaster actor Brian Blessed fronting local opinions on the issue. Until December 2016, the airport was branded "Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield". The 'Robin Hood' name was chosen for these reasons: Whilst the Robin Hood name remains, future marketing will focus on the 'Doncaster Sheffield' branding. Doncaster Sheffield Airport Doncaster Sheffield Airport , formerly named "Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield", is an international airport located at the former RAF Finningley station, in the Metropolitan Borough
Doncaster the band playing both "God Save the King" and the "Star Spangled Banner". Unfortunately, he crashed his aeroplane on the first day of the meeting and made no significant flights. During World War I fighters based first from the racecourse, then a temporary airstrip near Finningley (later RAF Finningley and now Doncaster Sheffield Airport) and finally, in 1916, from a newly built airfield alongside the racecourse, were deployed to defend the east coast against Zeppelins. On a number of occasions fighters took off to search for the intruders but none were ever seen. The Royal Flying Corps station trained pilots