PART ONE.
Hello all, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all recent members since my
last welcome message.
I have been able to do some checking in recent weeks and have updated several of
the county files with new strips and some ammendments.
At the recent Devon Strut regional fly-in I chatted to a gent I've been looking
to meet for a few years and to my surprise he told me that the ''Pepperbox''
strip near Salisbury was only a ruse to keep spotters away- it was/is actually
the strip at Coombe Bissett in Wiltshire and is in my file; said location being
several miles away from the one given in the Air-Britain and LAAS UK registers!!
There was, however, a short-lived micro strip on a farm near Pepperbox Hill just
north of Whiteparish a few years ago but this did not last long.
The same day I got info about a recent strip with two runways called 'Tracy
Island' just to the north of a hamlet called Street to the east of Chard in
Somerset; I had been personally presuming this was the strip at Two Ash Farm but
I'm most happy it is not!
There is a small micro strip which appears to be on land connected to the main
strip at Sedgewick Park near Nuthurst in Sussex, and north-east of Southwater in
the same county appears to be a small strip very near Kings Farm only a few
hundred yards north of Jackrells Farm.
Others recently identified will follow in part two of this message.
Best wishes to all. Richey.
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Hello everyone,just found this useful group and would like to start the ball
rolling on Warwickshire strips as there appears to be no listing yet for one
here ? as and when I will highlight a few in case anyone should visit the area
and wish to contact the strip owners for visits by road or by air,the first
strip I would like to mention is Bericote farm which lies just outside
Leamington to the North,the strip consists of two fields made into one and have
a slight curve,the best road landmark is the Chesford Grange hotel which is
right at the end of the runway.
Operated by Cathy Silk the strip since yesterday is now devoid of one of its
inmates as Tiger Moth G-AVPJ suffered engine failure on the 13th April over the
disused Honeybourne airfield and sadly turned over on landing badly damaging
it,the other aircraft based here is G-JTWO Cub J2 which may not be here for long
as it is up for sale at £19,000,the spares ship Ryan PT.22 G-BPUD went to Wills
Pastures with Peter Holloway but has now been sold in the USA for a major
rebuild,not sure if the Bristol Bullet replica is still here that was being
slowly rebuilt in the barn for the Bristol collection ? also the BOB film
replica Bf.109 and Hurricane have long since moved on from the courtyard area
where they were stored outside.
The only other annual visitor has been a Kitfox which calls in for the Royal
Show every year.
Hope that this is of interest to someone here.
Barry.
Got it. My attempt at a link failed, as it reverted to it's original start location.
Hugo.
--- In airstripslist-uk@yahoogroups.co.uk, Martinburney@... wrote: > > Hi > > The centre of titsey strip is at N5116.33.31-W00139.81 > > Regards > > Martin Burney >
A quick Google search using HR1 4TU and Aramstone brings back details of horse
training and a stud farm.
So Dave's deduction looks to be correct that its a horse related feature.
==
Sabrejv
I would agree, plus it's too narrow IMHO to be a usable strip.
Dave Reid
A-B 15826
Reading, Berkshire
www.civilaircraftregisters.org/UKBasedAircraft
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From: "TopHat27DT" <tophat27dt@...>
To: <airstripslist-uk@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:16 AM
Subject: [airstripslist-uk] King's Caple strip
> Hello.
> I am not convinced that it is an airstrip, probably a running track for
> horses. If you look at the turning circle at the west end, there appears
> to be fences, which wouldn't normally be put there if aeroplanes use it
> (unless you know for sure aircraft have landed there!)
>
> Regards
> Dave in Lux
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Hello.
I am not convinced that it is an airstrip, probably a running track for horses.
If you look at the turning circle at the west end, there appears to be fences,
which wouldn't normally be put there if aeroplanes use it (unless you know for
sure aircraft have landed there!)
Regards
Dave in Lux
Thanks Martin and Michael,
Got it. My attempt at a link failed, as it reverted to it's original
start location.
Hugo.
--- In airstripslist-uk@..., Martinburney@... wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The centre of titsey strip is at N5116.33.31-W00139.81
>
> Regards
>
> Martin Burney
>
if you go on google earth and put in titsey into the fly to box click find when it zooms in it is just to the right and down a little bit
To: airstripslist-uk@... From: hugojwilhare@... Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:19:46 +0000 Subject: [airstripslist-uk] Re: Welcome and a couple of 'new'? strips and request
> i have Titsey strip as 51.16-31N 00.01-35E > > mick
--- In airstripslist-uk@..., "Hugo J.Wilhare" <hugojwilhare@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In airstripslist-uk@..., "richward_uk"
> <richardaward@> wrote:
>
>
> > A couple of new strips I've found on Google Earth:
> > KINGS CAPLE- Aramstone Farm (?) half mile north of Kings Caple in
> > Herefordshire; looks like a very long strip to me.
>
> 1000m long but VERY narrow at only 4m
>
> > REQUEST: anyone got an exact location for Astwood Bank on
> > Worcs/Warwick border
>
> No luck with that one
>
> > and the Titsey strip in Surrey.
>
> Possible site for Titsey is just S of and parallel to the M25 W of
> Water Lane at 51.16-04.49N 00.00-10.00E 385amsl. 580m long at the
> top of a triangular shaped field.
>
> Regards
> Hugo.
>
i have Titsey strip as 51.16-31N 00.01-35E
mick
My Wife is disabled and I am thinking of taking her for a nice ride out soon, somewhere nice in the Derbyshire Dales.
I haven't been there for years but it was always friendly (most glider places are). It is easy to find on Google Earth, a lot of trailered machines. I will let you have an update if I can con her :-)
Your help has been invaluable in finding some of these out of the way places and I will now try to do my bit to keep you up to date. I love photographing at these out of the way places.
Thanks for the updates Mick. Collecting gliders and visiting glider fields is all fairly new to me. I've only started collecting gliders since I bought Aerodata database, same with military, they all count now! Regarding my site, http://AircraftSpotting.co.uk, I've actually just completed a major update to the 'Spain' page of my site, including a new look and format that will make it a lot easier to read and find what you are looking for. Details are being sent out in the email update newsletter, if anyone wants to join email me direct.
Now I'm done with the shameless plug, I'll get Great Hucklow added and Oxton updated where necessary.
Thanks again
Chris
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To: airstripslist-uk@... From: mbajcar@... Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:26:14 -0400 Subject: [airstripslist-uk] Airstrips
Visited Oxton, Notts yesterday, incredibly friendly, first words 'We'd better get the kettle on ' About 12 based at Oxton but I have made several visits before getting any activity (apart from the tea)
Two aircraft came in G-CCDV and WLSN both from Swanwick Derbys where three are based.
Clearly visible to NNE of Swanwick on Google Earth.
Another strip SSE of the village, immediately north of railway sidings. One based, no further details but only allowed 28 movements per annum Has its own hangar so you would be very lucky to catch it !
Great Hucklow, Derbys does not seem to feature on Chris's guide....a very active glider field.
Mick Bajcar
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--- In airstripslist-uk@..., "Richard Flagg" <reflagg@...> wrote:
> Does anyone have the names to hand of these airfields please?
> 1 = Just to the north west of Swaffham;
> http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.660027&lon=0.641241&z=16.4&r=0&src=msl
I've seen reported a Swaffham-Etthornes Farm on the old Fly site a Google search
still brings this up. But I've not tracked down other documents to support that
name, however the OS map shows this area as 'Great Friars Thornes' so maybe that
is the name of the site. The Google Earth show quite a few battery farm type
buildings not on the Flash Earth image so maybe no longer active?
> 2 = Between Elsworth and Conington, Cambs
> http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.271889&lon=-0.071635&z=16.9&r=0&src=msl
This is Main Hall Farm, Conington - (page 217 of Lockyears 5th edition)
confusion is possible due to two Conington villages in Cambridgeshire!, the
other one having Peterborough-Conington Airfield (EGSF) near to it.
> 3 = Small grass airstrip that runs NE/SW and the centre is the gap in the
hedge here (airfield newer than flashearth image);
> http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.285192&lon=-0.02989&z=17.2&r=0&src=msl
No idea on this one!
regards
Sabrejv
Visited Oxton, Notts yesterday, incredibly friendly, first words 'We'd better get the kettle on ' About 12 based at Oxton but I have made several visits before getting any activity (apart from the tea)
Two aircraft came in G-CCDV and WLSN both from Swanwick Derbys where three are based.
Clearly visible to NNE of Swanwick on Google Earth.
Another strip SSE of the village, immediately north of railway sidings. One based, no further details but only allowed 28 movements per annum Has its own hangar so you would be very lucky to catch it !
Great Hucklow, Derbys does not seem to feature on Chris's guide....a very active glider field.
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