Press Release

Issued by Oxford Aviation Services Ltd.

September 23, 2010

London Oxford Airport is progressing its development with its latest 4,440m2 (47,787sq.ft) hangar on schedule for completion by December. Building work on the £3m investment commenced in June, representing the largest single development on the airport site. Hangar No. 14 comprises a three-bay facility with independent landside access, office space and ample car parking. Parallel with the hangar development is an increase in apron space, a £2 million investment, extending over an area of 4.4 acres (the equivalent of four football pitches).

Further substantial investment in airport improvements is ongoing. Just last week the airport went live with a new data link ground station in co-operation with aviation IT communications supplier ARINC. Oxford Airport is the first business aviation airport in the UK to install the system, which heightens flight efficiency and safety by improving communications between flight crews, engineering departments and air traffic service providers. The investment in the ground station is part of the airport's all-embracing upgrade of communications equipment. The best option for a radar solution is also being evaluated.

"Complementing a peak month of business aviation activity in July, which saw arrivals from all over the globe, Oxford Airport had a record month for jet fuel sales," said Business Development Director James Dillon-Godfray. He added that complementing the airport's enhanced fire and rescue capability – now at Cat 6 – improvements for 2011 will include the building of a new fire station and a fuel farm.

First UK airport to introduce state-of-the-art Iturri fire tender

The airport is also adding to its ground handling capability with the forthcoming acquisition of a new fire tender. The airport is taking delivery of a brand new £500,000 tender from Spanish company Iturri, a leading commercial and industrial services group, which manufactures fire-fighting vehicles. London Oxford Airport will be the first airport in the UK to operate the 6x6 high-capacity machine. It will arrive at Oxford in the first quarter of next year.

In conjunction with aviation medical equipment supplier, The Medical Warehouse, Oxford Airport's Oxfordjet FBO facility will be taking delivery of a Norwegian-origin defibrillator unit which will be installed in the terminal. Called a Laerdal FRX, the unit is widely used in the UK in hotels, shops, and public buildings to provide emergency life-saving treatment to cardiac arrest victims. The airport already has an AED on site, with the fire crew, but decided to enhance its health and safety with the addition of a unit in the FBO should passengers and flight personnel require it. All Oxfordjet Customer Services staff are fully First Aid trained, but the Laerdal FRX device unit can also be used by non-specialists with its easy to use voice and visual operational prompts.

New website

www.oxfordjet.com is the airport's new enhanced website, offering easy access information about the FBO, various services including chauffeur cars, meeting rooms, venue opportunities, hotels and catering, as well as a dedicated new charter zone where interested charter customers can contact the FBO's team for charter enquiries. flymethere@oxfordjet.com will advise on availability from compact four-seat Entry Level Jets such as the Embraer Phenom, right up to private charter airliners such as the 50-seat Saab 2000 or larger Bombardier Q400 and BAe146 / Avro RJ which have great range capability from Oxford.

Increasingly popular as a film and photography set, the Oxfordjet terminal facility has been utilised for a number of media projects this year, including Living TV's popular Four Weddings and the new Four Parties series, together with ITV's Midsomer Murders, several music videos and two aviation photo-shoots for GQ Magazine.

In other news, Getmapping, the UK's leading provider of aerial photography and mapping products, has produced the first ever complete, seamless aerial photographic image of the UK - The Millennium Map™. The company has based two camera-equipped Rockwell Aerocommander aircraft at Oxford over the last two summers to keep The Millennium Map™ constantly updated with its annual re-flying programme.

Light Jets Europe at Oxford Airport

The next two days will see the airport and Oxford Aviation Academy play host to MIU Events' newly named Light Jets Europe event. To be attended by 100-plus industry delegates, this has been expanded this year to accommodate an exhibition and static aircraft display including the Embraer Phenom 100, a Beechcraft Premier 1A, a King Air C90GTx, a full-size mock up of a Cirrus SF50, a Cessna Mustang, a Cessna Grand Caravan with VIP interior and two Eclipse 500s.

Light Jets Europe delegates will have the opportunity to attend presentations given by Government, regulatory and industry associations, the legal, insurance, taxation, finance and funding agencies and entrepreneurs, as well as the OEMs, pilots, training institutions, airworthiness, efficiency and aircraft management specialists and those that supply and support the efficient deployment and rotation of Light Jets throughout Europe.