Fishburn Airfield is a small grass strip airfield in Fishburn

Fishburn

Fishburn is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated a few miles to the west of Hartlepool. It has a population of 2,454.-Location:...

, County Durham

County Durham

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The airfield was opened on 30 June 1995 by the then local MP Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

. It was named as "Airfield of the year" by aviation magazine Flyer

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 in 2004 for its welcoming atmosphere and bacon butties.

In 2005 the airfield hosted filming for a scene from the Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors