| Re: Llandegley International Airport - billboard to be removed Posted by Trowres at 14:35, 14th October 2026 |     |
as close as a practical joke gets to being scheduled
I'm sorely tempted to associate those words with a certain train service...
| Re: Llandegley International Airport - billboard to be removed Posted by grahame at 08:54, 14th October 2026 | |
Posting on behalf of "Kai (posts as kai_oddcorners)" ... not verified by myself, so can't vouch for how tall the story is, but it looks feasible.
Small update for anyone who found this thread after the 2022 news, because the removal wasn't the end of it.
The sign came back. After the November 2022 piece, a crowdfunding round (slogan: give us a sign) raised about 2,000 pounds against a 1,300 pound target, the surplus going to the Wales Air Ambulance for the aviation link. A new sign went up in May 2023, east of the village, on the Richards family's land, where the landowner has let it stand without charge. So the airport is still signposted - just from a different field, and now paid for by the people who liked the joke rather than by the man who started it. He kept the old one in his garden in Devon.
The detail I can't get past is the numbering. It reads "Terminals 1 and 3", and always has. There is no Terminal 2, and never was. Which means the running gag about a top-secret Terminal 2 - the one they've kept going on the airport's Facebook page for years - is a joke about a number that isn't on the sign. Two decades of mythology out of a missing digit.
Worth it for his line on whether the place is real: "It exists in the same way songs exist."
And for the spoof-sign thread above (Totnes/Narnia, Twinned with Atlantis): the Llandegley sign is listed in Coflein, the Welsh national monuments record. Which is about as close as a practical joke gets to being scheduled.
The sign came back. After the November 2022 piece, a crowdfunding round (slogan: give us a sign) raised about 2,000 pounds against a 1,300 pound target, the surplus going to the Wales Air Ambulance for the aviation link. A new sign went up in May 2023, east of the village, on the Richards family's land, where the landowner has let it stand without charge. So the airport is still signposted - just from a different field, and now paid for by the people who liked the joke rather than by the man who started it. He kept the old one in his garden in Devon.
The detail I can't get past is the numbering. It reads "Terminals 1 and 3", and always has. There is no Terminal 2, and never was. Which means the running gag about a top-secret Terminal 2 - the one they've kept going on the airport's Facebook page for years - is a joke about a number that isn't on the sign. Two decades of mythology out of a missing digit.
Worth it for his line on whether the place is real: "It exists in the same way songs exist."
And for the spoof-sign thread above (Totnes/Narnia, Twinned with Atlantis): the Llandegley sign is listed in Coflein, the Welsh national monuments record. Which is about as close as a practical joke gets to being scheduled.
| Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:49, 19th February 2025 | |
Totnes is indeed in another world. I know it quite well, being from South Devon.
| Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed Posted by johnneyw at 21:21, 19th February 2025 | |
A few years back one of the "Welcome to Totnes" road signs was altered to read "Twinned with Narnia" underneath.
It lasted for a fair old while before the authorities repainted it. Still makes me chuckle when I'm passing it.
Totnes is, rest assured, still living up to it's reputation.
| Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed Posted by JayMac at 20:58, 19th February 2025 | |
"Welcome to Cleveland" on a rooftop on the approach to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/welcome-to-cleveland-sign
And a temporary "Welcome To Luton" sign on the approach to Gatwick.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61541224
| Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 20:51, 19th February 2025 | |
A couple of very minor aside comments from me here, if I may?
Bristol Airport dropped the 'International' from their title in 2010 - despite their actually remaining an 'international' airport.
In the early days (1957) when it was developed as Bristol's new airport rather than Whitchurch, it took over an ex-RAF station, called, rather amuzingly (to me, anyway) Lulsgate Bottom.
CfN.
| Re: Llandegley International - Carbon Zero Airport? Posted by grahame at 18:45, 8th May 2023 | |
Has Llandegley International become the first airport anywhere in the world where there are no emissions from aircraft?
It has been pointed out to me that RAF Melksham was also aircraft emission free. I knew we were leaders here.
| Llandegley International - Carbon Zero Airport? Posted by grahame at 08:36, 8th May 2023 | |
Has Llandegley International become the first airport anywhere in the world where there are no emissions from aircraft?
Details on the BBC
| Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed Posted by broadgage at 03:39, 15th November 2022 | |
There are several spoof road signs around here. "TWINNED WITH ATLANTIS" is the most popular, a reference to the severe floods to which the area is prone. These often stay in place for years.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4885724
"TWINNED WITH FUKUSHIMA" Appears regularly on roads approaching the Hinkley point building site. These are removed promptly.
| Re: billboard for Llandegley International Airport to be removed Posted by GBM at 07:16, 14th November 2022 | |
Melksham International anyone!
| Llandegley International Airport - billboard to be removed Posted by grahame at 15:10, 13th November 2022 | |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63600184
Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign joke that cost £25k
A man who spent £25,000 on a fake airport sign in mid Wales is bringing the joke to an end after 20 years.
For the past two decades, a billboard for Llandegley International has been a landmark near the Powys village.
It looks like an ordinary road sign, but actually signposts to an airport that only exists in people's imagination.
After spending thousands of pounds to erect and maintain the sign, the owner decided it's time to take it down.
Since 2002, if you travel eastwards along the A44 between Rhayader and Kington, you will see a sign directing drivers to Terminals 1 and 3 of Llandegley International airport.
But drive the two-and-a-half miles, as instructed, and you will end up not at an airport - not even an airfield - but just a field, on the outskirts of the village of Llandegley, Powys.
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A man who spent £25,000 on a fake airport sign in mid Wales is bringing the joke to an end after 20 years.
For the past two decades, a billboard for Llandegley International has been a landmark near the Powys village.
It looks like an ordinary road sign, but actually signposts to an airport that only exists in people's imagination.
After spending thousands of pounds to erect and maintain the sign, the owner decided it's time to take it down.
Since 2002, if you travel eastwards along the A44 between Rhayader and Kington, you will see a sign directing drivers to Terminals 1 and 3 of Llandegley International airport.
But drive the two-and-a-half miles, as instructed, and you will end up not at an airport - not even an airfield - but just a field, on the outskirts of the village of Llandegley, Powys.
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