Doncaster Sheffield Airport including a change of name from Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield to Doncaster Sheffield Airport, with the Robin Hood title being downgraded to a lesser used graphic appendix. In September 2017, the airport entered a sponsorship deal with Sheffield Arena giving it the new name of Fly DSA Arena. The airport has a single runway designated 02/20, with a length of , making it longer and wider than those at many other airports in Northern England. This stems from the airport's history as a former long-range nuclear bomber base (RAF Finningley), and makes the airport suitable for wide-bodied, long-haul or
Doncaster RAF Finningley, now known as Doncaster Sheffield Airport, located about to the south-east of Doncaster town centre, and at a similar elevation. The Doncaster area is about as far north as the average July/August maximum temperature isotherm reaches – Indeed, the August 1990 record high of is the most northerly temperature above in the British Isles. The nearby town of Bawtry just slightly further south still holds the UK's September monthly record high temperature of , set in 1906. Typically, the warmest day of the year should reach and 12.58 days will report a daytime maximum of or above. The