Southend Airport is a small airport in the south east, in the county of Essex. It mainly operates charter and business flights, and offers maintenance services for the aircraft used for passenger services at larger airports.
Companies located at and around the airport employ over 1,000 skilled workers, providing services such as engineering and maintenance work on airliners, including re-spraying, refurbishment, upgrades to avionics, manufacture of aircraft seats and the installation of new or hush-kitted engines.
This cache is placed near to the maintenance area to provide a perspective of some of the activity at the airport along Public Footpath 36. The footpath has now been closed in places, hence the best access to the cache location is now from the end of Aviation Way.
This cache is located just off the footpath and this is one of our occasional dog walking routes.