Durham Tees airport is situated just six miles from the centre of Darlington, north east England. The airport started life in 1941 as an RAF base known as Middleton-St-George, the base later became an RAF aerodrome. In 1964 the base was handed over for civil use and was designated the task of becoming the commercial airport for the region. The airport had £1.4 million spent on it to make it suitable for commercial passengers before it reopened in 1966. Today the airport sees approxiamtley 50,000 passengers pass through each year and flies to more than 25 destinations.