On 27 June 1982 Brymon's Captain Harry Gee landed a de Havilland Canada Dash 7 turboprop aircraft on Heron Quays, in the nearby West India Docks, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the STOLport project. Plaque commemorating the landing by Captain Harry Gee at Heron Quays DLR station in 1982 By November of that year Mowlem and Bill Bryce of Brymon Airways had submitted an outline proposal to the LDDC for a Docklands STOLport city centre gateway. He in turn discussed the proposal with chairman of John Mowlem & Co Sir Philip Beck and the idea of an airport for Docklands was born. The airport was first proposed in 1981 by Reg Ward, who was Chief Executive of the newly formed London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) that was responsible for the regeneration of the area. In 2019, the airport handled over 5 million passengers. It is the fifth-busiest airport by passengers and aircraft movements serving the London area - after Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton - and was the 14th-busiest in the UK in 2017. London City had over 4.5 million passenger movements in 2017. As of 2020, the airport is about 60 hectares (150 acres) in size. Only multi-engine, fixed-wing aircraft up to Airbus A318 size with special aircraft and aircrew certification to fly 5.5° approaches are allowed to conduct operations at London City Airport. London City Airport has a single 1,508-metre (4,948 ft) long runway, and a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P728) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers this licence also allows training flights, but only for the purpose of training pilots to operate at this specific airport. In 2016 it was bought by a Canadian-led consortium of Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), OMERS, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Wren House Infrastructure Management of the Kuwait Investment Authority. The airport was developed by the engineering company Mowlem in 1986–87. These are the twin centres of London's financial industry, which is a major user of the airport.

It is located in the Royal Docks in the Borough of Newham, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the City of London and 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Canary Wharf. London City Airport ( IATA: LCY, ICAO: EGLC) is a regional airport in London, England. Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority

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