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re: Hibaldstow Airfield
Reply to @david: you are correct website should be www.skydiving .co.uk for Hibaldstow Airfield
re: Hibaldstow Airfield
Reply to @cliffair: that link seems to refer to Hinton-in-the-Hedges airport: http://www.ourairports.com/airports/GB-0073
Hibaldstow Airfield
Former RAF Base Now Skydive Centre www.skydive.co.uk
Old Sarum Airfield
Good Airfield nice restaurant very freindly
Compton Abbas Aerodrome
Very good airfield nice local views from airfield
The Blades Aerobatic Display Team
The Blades are Based at Sywell Aerodrome
Sywell Aerodrome Runway 03R/21L
This Runway Still Active Info From www.sywellaerodrome.com/Aerodrom Layout
Lashenden/Headcom
Runway 03/21 is Unlicensed Info from www.ais.org/NATS
Lower manor Farm Airstrip
This Airstrip is PRIVATE NOT PUBLIC
Bedford Aerodrome
Operated By Motorsprt Vision(MSV) Bedford Autodrome
Wroughton Airfield
Info on this Airfield from ukga.com Disused
HM Coastgaurd SAR
Based Here
Aircraft Agusta-Westland AW139
Registration G-CGWB Callsign Rescue104/5
Yakovlevs Aerobatic Display Team
Based Here
Aircraft 1XYak52-3XYak50
Dorset&Somerset Air Ambulance
Aircraft Based Here
Eurocopter EC135T2+ Registration G-DORS Callsign Helimed10
Maintenance Bond Air Service
blimey
Never knew it was there LOL
Chavs
Lot of chavs in that airport
Bar Restaurant
Surely the best bar and restaurant in the UK.
Popham
Well known, popular and affordable (for greater London area) airfield with two grass strips.
Curiosity: Trees that used to make landing difficult in the early days where only possibly to remove due to a legal loop hole: tree protection orders in UK are re-issued every so often, but it lapsed just before xmas holiday and the owner knew the issuing authorities were all off and wouldn't return to re-issue another one until the new year so he managed to cut down the offending trees in that time.
new bembridge web site
Website now at eghj.co.uk as well as vectisglidingclub.co.uk
Amazing
My favourite airfield of all time, nice people, fantastic bacon sandwiches! well worth a visit
Closed
This airfield has closed down, there is now no visible signs of the strip
This airport is now closed
This airport is now closed
Runsways
The runsways at Hucknall airfield are all grass .
AIRPORT
HI MANCHESTER AIRPORT. IS A GREAT.
re: Missing NDB at Kemble Apt
I took the information from the DAFIF, which was closed to public access around 2007 (IIRC), so the navaid data is falling further out of date each year without user updates.
re: Missing NDB at Kemble Apt
Reply to @david:
Hi, where did you get the informations for all the navaids?
re: Missing NDB at Kemble Apt
Thank you for the information about the new NDB. There hasn't been a good source of international navaid data since the DAFIF stopped open distribution a few years ago, and it's wonderful news that the UK has actually commissioned a new NDB when so many are closing. I've added the NDB here: http://www.ourairports.com/navaids/KMB/Kemble_NDB_GB/
Missing NDB at Kemble Apt
Your map and navaids list do not list ndb KMB 349 kHz which was commissioned Mar 2009. 51 40 09 N, 002 04 08 W.
J-3 Flying
Back in 1991 I flew out of this air strip in one of my friend's J-3's, I recall using the roundabout to line find the runway.
Cadet Flying
When I was an RAF Air Cadet I flew a DHC Chipmunk from 'RAF Filton'.
Gliding with the Air Cadets
When I was an RAF Air Cadet I attended a week long course here, flying the Grob 103 (Viking) glider, being aero-towed by a Robin DR400 (with a four blade prop for quite operations).
Lee-on-the-Solent
LFA winning battle and airfield has gained enterprise zone status ,open to visiting a/c 7 days a week and has a healthy population of based light a/c and helicopters which is set to increase.
BRIL!
DSA is my home airport and I love it, never that busy and so much space, would definitely recommend it!
HEATHROW DE LONDRES UN AEROPUERTO PROFESIONAL
Como pasajero, las veces que me ha tocado visitar este aeropuerto, siempre destaca un aire de profesionalidad y buen hacer. Sabemos que tiene un factor en contra que cuando nos pueden sorprender las inclemencias.
Bodmin
Great strip, relaxed.. scenic, friendly. Get down here!
Flying at Duxford
First flew gliders at Duxford in November 1961 and my last logged flight here in June 1962.
My first introduction to a Motor tow launch.
Was based at RAF Waterbeach at the time and offered a chance to fly a Turbulent. Missed it!! John Delafield flew it though.
RAF Duxford was my first posting as a Boy Entrant (SAC qualified Air Radar Mech) in April 1959.
Moonrakers Soaring Club, RAFGSA
This is where I learned to fly with John Williamson (CFI) and friends, in 1961.
For more info see: http://moonrakersglidingclub.blogspot.com/
Bembridge is now open all week for PPR
Bembridge is now open all week for PPR fixed wing and rotary. new website Please see vectis gliding club web site for full details.
Old pics
I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1968 thru 1971 and would love to see pics of the base from that time period I cannot find any of my old pics that I made while i was there, I am planning a trip in the fall to come for a visit this fall after 40 years and I know it has changed since then. My email address is james@hcvso1officer.com, I am a veterans service officer helping veterans with their benefits.
Leavesden Aerodrome
I grew up yards from the end of the runway! Fabulous place to grow up. We spent hours as kids with our noses pressed against the fence, watching the comings and goings of the learner pilots, executive jets, helicopters and airships!! Barry Bowles once used it to test his fast car - and we were there watching! We lived a few doors away from Rolls Royce's Press Officer and he let us in. I still remember everything shaking as Concorde did a flypast at an airshow in 1986 - simply amazing and still one of my favourite planes.
From memory - a potted history. It used to be the King George V playing fields, gifted to the people of Watford by the Crown. The land was requisitioned during the First World War and turned into an airfield. The land was then 'given' to Rolls Royce who sold it off in 1994 for profit when they closed down their Small Engine Division and moved production elswhere. The local folk fought the two Councils involved (Three Rivers and Watford Borough) to stop the land sale from going through but were unsuccessful. The deed from the original gifting from the Crown had mysteriously disappeared from County Hall and so ownership of the land couldn't be proved. Very sad.
I no longer live in Leavesden but I still expect to see aircraft landing when I come up Courtlands Drive to get to my parents' house.
Bembridge Airport
Bembridge is now open all week for PPR fixed wing and rotary. Please see vectis gliding club web site for full details.
My time at RAF Heyford
Would like to catch up with you gals and guys darylstew23@yahoo
My time at RAF Heyford
In 1980 I was a 18 year old from Flint, Michigan who was stationed at Heyford as a Security Police (B flt) and recalling great times and memories, would love to catch up with you gals and guys, Daryl Stewart
Runway Designation
FYI, EGSS runways have for the past 1 year plus been redesignated 04/22.
re: Civilian carriers V Military aircraft
You refer to the DC-10 as an old airframe, and yet you prefer the VC-10, which first flew nearly 50 years ago? I'm willing to bet the DC-10 is *way* more fuel efficient and cheaper to operate. Probably safer too. And according to Wikipedia, the only flying VC-10s are tankers - the rest are there for spare parts.
Wikipedia also says that some of the Tristars passenger/tanker combos, and some of the passenger Tristars have counter measures against ground fire so they are used to fly people into possibly hostile places like Iraq and Afghanistan. So it's not that they don't use the Tristars, just that they don't waste them on moving people around in safe airspaces.
Civilian carriers V Military aircraft
Why do we use Civilian carriers (normally the cheapest bidder, like the recently bust 'Fly Globespan', or the oldest airframes, like Omni Air's DC-10s) when the sides of the runway at Brize are lined with RAF VC-10s and Tristars? What is the point having RAF passenger aircraft if we don't use them regularly?
Great!
Great for spotting, and a great airport to be in while waiting for your flight to depart.. :)
Noise Abatement Procedure
The Airport is located in a very noise sensitive area and a noise and track monitoring system is in use. Pilots are advised to strictly
follow the published Noise Abatement Procedures, unless otherwise instructed by ATC.
Unfortunately there are a lot of violation reports.
Shobdon Aerodrome
🔗 Sun, 28 Oct 2012
— @cliffair at Shobdon Airfield, United Kingdom
Shobdon as Glider Strip 3084X98 Feet Left of 09 and Microlight Strip 2542X59 Feet Right of 09 Info from www.caa.co.uk NATS-ais