Doncaster Sheffield Airport 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 of Doncaster within South Yorkshire, England. The airport lies southeast of Doncaster Town Centre and east of Sheffield. Handling 1.33 million passengers in 2017, the airport is the smaller of Yorkshire's two large commercial airports, the other being Leeds Bradford Airport. The airport opened to passengers in 2005. It was initially operated by Peel Airports, a division of The Peel Group, who at the time also owned and managed Liverpool John
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