Hi Richey

Thanks for the tip-off about Sleight Farm at Stowey. I went and had a
look myself last week and found the strip with a PA28 "in residence".
Air Britain shows the PA28 as being based at Compton Abbas so it may
just be a summer resident for the field. The strip was not well
defined and the grass was getting long but tyre marks in the grass
certainly indicated recent activity.

Regards

Dave bush

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>
> I'll begin by saying hello to the recent new members and also to
> say we have now made it onto Howard Cutis's AIRNET web-site--
though
> I have not found the listing after two tries, but I'm sure it's
> there somewhere..
> My first news concerns the closing down of the Swallow
Microlights
> training base at Deptford Farm on Deptford Down, after their
> planning appeal was rejected. I went to the strip on Saturday 7th
> July to have a chat with Paul Fahie (>FAY<)after calling him on the
> phone the day before; I had been up there twice before but no-one
> present each time so I wanted to have a natter. When I got there it
> was to find that Paul and a colleague were just leaving by road,
> after having taken two aircraft to Wing Farm (Mark Jones/Galaxy
> Microlights) that
> morning for temporary storage. Paul told me the finish of
operations
> was the same day, as per the Borough planning closedown order.
> They had never had any problems or significant complaints but
> however a person in charge of an airfield somewhere in the south-
> west ( some distance away) has lodged objections which included
that
> they shouldn't be operating in 'class G airspace ' , but I am not
> understanding of the specifics involved. Shame, it was a great
strip
> atop a hill with great views.
> New ones: thanks to the July issue of LAAS news and review mag
the
> following are known to exist in GLOUCESTERSHIRE : Bulley- Colliers
> Elm Farm, and at Norton a strip is next to the A38 just south of
the
> village; both can be seen on Google Earth... in KENT a new strip
> has been set up at Pluckley but no location details yet.
> I also suspect there may be a strip at Street/Walton- Lower
> Ivythorn Farm in SOMERSET as I have seen some planning details from
> three! years ago. Also in the county there is a newish strip Stowey-

> Sleight Farm which can be seen to the south of Stowey on Google
> Earth though the strip itself has gone and two thirds of the field
> appear to be used now when I had a look last month.
> Appologies to Martin (Burney) for not following up my message, I
> will have some gen for you in the next day or two when I get an
> update from my source in Southampton.
> Very Best Wishes to all. Richey.
>