[6] The first person to fly to and from the grassed area that was to become Hedon Aerodrome was a young German pilot called Gustav Hamel in 1912.

[3] Flying at the site was restricted because of radio masts, telephone wires and its proximity to Salt End chemical works which was only 1-mile (1.6 km) to the south-west.

[8] The piece of history that Hedon is most famous for was in August 1930, when Amy Johnson arrived at the aerodrome to a rapturous applause and gifts from the people of her home town.

[13] Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus visited the site in the 1930s and for a while from 1934 to 1935, the Dutch carrier, KLM, operated flights from Amsterdam to Liverpool with a stopover at Hedon.

[18] After the Second World War it was used as a speedway track by the 'Hull's Angels', before the Hull Corporation Airfield Company was wound up by the council, who then abandoned the aerodrome in July 1951.

Their efforts were not totally in vain however, as the flying group would eventually go on to establish an airfield in Paull during the late-1960s, which would become the base of the newly reformed Hull Aero Club until the early-1980s.

In June 2016, a book about these efforts was published by Neville Medforth's grandson, entitled The Hedon Aerodrome Saga: Death of an Airport.

[24][25] This would involve a business park, an educational campus, a data centre, local sport provision and a power plant.