Rochester Airport
Rochester Airport also known as Rochester Airfield, is a operational general aviation airport located 1.5 nautical miles south of Rochester in South East England, with the River Medway 1.5 NM from the end of runway 34, 3.4 mi from Chatham and its Historic Dockyard and the Medway area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in England
- Also known as: “EGTO”, “RCS”, and “Rochester City Airport”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Horsted and Fort Bridgewoods.
Fort Horsted
Fort
Fort Horsted is a scheduled monument that lies in the Horsted Valley to the South of Chatham, Kent, England. It is a late 19th-century Land Fort, and one of six constructed around Chatham and Gillingham, Kent to protect HM Dockyard Chatham from attack.
Fort Bridgewoods
Fort
The site of Fort Bridgewoods is on the outskirts of Rochester, Medway in the United Kingdom, next to the Rochester-Maidstone road. The site was acquired by the War Office in about 1860 to form part of a ring of forts protecting the Royal Dockyard at Chatham.
Buckmore Park Kart Circuit
Sports venue
Buckmore Park Kart Circuit is an MSA approved outdoor kart racing circuit located just off junction 3 of the M2 in Chatham, Kent, England. The circuit is owned by Rich Martell and Leonora Martell-Surtees, daughter of the late John Surtees, with Phil Ling serving as the Managing Director.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Walderslade and Blue Bell Hill.
Walderslade
Suburb
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Walderslade is a large suburb in Kent in Chatham split between the unitary authority of Medway and the boroughs of Maidstone and Tonbridge & Malling in South East England.
Blue Bell Hill
Village
Blue Bell Hill is a village in the Aylesford parish of the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. It is located halfway between Chatham and Maidstone and lies on top of Blue Bell Hill.
Borstal
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borstal is a location in the Medway unitary authority of Kent in South East England. Originally a village near Rochester, it has become absorbed by the expansion of that town. The youth prison at Borstal gave its name to the Borstal reform school system.
Rochester Airport
- Categories: airport, air base, and transportation
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.35221° or 51° 21′ 8″ northLongitude
0.50528° or 0° 30′ 19″ eastElevation
410 feet (125 metres)Operator
Rochester Airport plcIATA airport code
RCSICAO airport code
EGTOUnited Nations Location Code
GB RCSOpen location code
9F329G24+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 911292005OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Rochester Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rochester Airport”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار روتشستر”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Rochester”
- Indonesian: “EGTO”
- Indonesian: “RCS”
- Japanese: “ロチェスター空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Rochester”
- Persian: “فرودگاه روچستر”
- Piemontese: “Rochester Airport”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Rochester”
- Swedish: “Rochester Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ручстр (Англия)”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ручстр”
- Urdu: “روچیسٹر ایئرپورٹ (کینٹ)”
- Urdu: “روچیسٹر ایئرپورٹ”
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Explore places such as Weeds Wood and Bridgewood Gate.
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