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Newcastle International Airport celebrates 75th anniversary
8.26pm Monday 26th July 2010
AN ORIGINAL vintage passenger airliner landed in the North-East today - marking the 75th anniversary of the opening of Newcastle International Airport. The De Havilland Dragon Rapide landed at noon - reconstructing the first flight to the airport in 1935 when a similar aircraft landed on North-East soil, carrying the then Air Minister, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister - to perform an opening ceremony.
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