Warton Aerodrome and the Birth of BAE Systems
For more than eighty years, Warton Aerodrome has stood at the forefront of British aviation, evolving from a wartime airfield into one of the world's leading centres for military aircraft design, development, testing and final assembly. Located on the Fylde Coast between Lytham St Annes and Preston, the site has played a pivotal role in British aerospace history, producing and testing many of the nation's most iconic aircraft. Construction of the airfield began in May 1939, as tensions mounted across Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War. The British Air Ministry acquired farmland west of Preston to establish...