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Carlisle Lake District Airport or Carlisle Airport is a small regional airport located east northeast of Carlisle, Cumbria, England.Carlisle has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P855) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction, up to a maximum takeoff weight authorised (MTWA) of 12.5 tonnes.The airport is located on a hill side above the River Irthing. The airport has been the location for some prehistoric excavationsSince 30 May 2009, the airport has been owned by the Stobart Group on a 150 year lease, expiring 2151.The airport is about to undergo a multi-million pound transformation, to build an Air Freight Distribution Centre starting at the end of 2014/beginning of 2015, and to commence passenger flights to Dublin and London from summer 2015.HistoryRAF Crosby-on-EdenIn the early 1930s, Cumbria County Council opened Kingstown Municipal Airport, at the time outside the borough boundaries which later became the RAF Kingstown and is now Kingstown or Kingmoor Industrial estate. With the outbreak of war in 1939, RAF Kingstown's runway was too small for bombers, so the Royal Air Force developed a new airstrip at Crosby-on-Eden. The new facility came into operation in February 1941 for training operations, designating the station RAF Crosby-on-Eden.