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Oxford Airport in the United Kingdom is also often referred to as Kidlington Airport, whilst historically the site has had an aerodrome once called ‘Campsfield’ and occasionally on old charts ‘Thrupp’. However, world-wide, there are a number of other airports, predominantly in the USA, that are also referred to as ‘Oxford’ airport. Some of those airports are highlighted below:
ICAO
Code |
IATA
Code |
Common
Name |
Alternative
Name |
WEB |
Location |
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| KOXC |
OXC |
Waterbury-Oxford |
‘Oxford’ |
here |
3 miles north of Oxford,
CT, USA |
| KHNZ |
HNZ |
Henderson-Oxford |
‘Oxford’ |
here |
4 miles north east of
Oxford, MC, USA |
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UOX |
University-Oxford |
Clegg Field
Ole Miss |
here |
2 miles north west of
Oxford, MI, USA |
London Oxford Airport
In the United Kingdom, there was a proposal in 2003 for the establishment of the LOX airport (London Oxford Airport) , near Abingdon, about 11 miles south east of RAF Brize Norton, put forward by Pleiade Associates with Gardiner & Theobald in response to the government’s preparation of the White Paper on the Future of Air Transport, published in 2003. The proposal was for a national transportation hub with four 4,000m runways directly integrated with Heathrow and London.
Put forward at the time as the The Best Practicable Environmental Option for an Integrated transport hub in South East England, the scheme was cited as an alternative to other new build airports in locations such as Cliffe in the Thames estuary, the Severn estuary and the Rugby/Church Lawford solutions. The Department for Transport (DfT) employed Halcrow to undertake an appraisal of the LOX proposal (656kb pdf) tabled at that time. A further comment on the proposal and the future development of integrated transport can be seen here (712kb pdf).
The proposed site is currently tabled as an option for a major new reservoir for Thames Water.
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