Just picked up a really usefull pamphlet listing all the airfields in Nottinghamshire.
So here are the details of Civvy airfields in Nottinghamshire, any updates or better info please post.
Gamston ( retford )
Sheet 120 SK693762 3 miles s of Retford.
Active with light aircraft and Biz Jets.
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Hucknal
Sheet 129 SK5266470 5 miles NNM of Nottingham
Active light aircraft field owned and operated by The merlin flying Club ( Rolls Royce )
Viewing ok from car park next to tower.
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Langar
Sheet 129 SK740335 10 miles SE of Nottingham
Active airfield with parachuting ( BPS ) Public viewing area
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Syerston
Sheet 129 SK730480 6 Miles SW of Newark
Active with gliding only, poor viewing.
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Tollerton
Sheet 129 SK620360 3 Miles SE of Nottingham
Active with wide range of flying, helicopters, microlights.
Public viewing of operations is allowed from the flying club car parking area.
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Caunton.
Sheet 120 SK744586 4 miles NW of Newark
Currently an active landing site for microlight aircraft of the Derby & Notts Microlight club.
Unsure of viewing locations.
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Cromwell
Sheet 120 SK795608 4 miles N of Newark
Active landing strip
viewing unknown.
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Costock
Sheet 129 SK576267 Adjacent to A60 Notts to Loughborough road
Active helicopter pleasure flight site.
Viewing unknown.
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Darlton
Sheet 120 SK765732 3 Miles NE of Tuxford
Grass gliding site located off the A6075 Tuxford to Darlton road.
Viewing unknown.
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Grassthorpe Grange
Sheet 120 SK 794674 7 Miles NNW of Newark
Active landing strip
Viewing unknown.
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Greasley (Watnall)
Sheet 129 SK500481 7 miles NNW of Newark
Active landing strip.
Viewing Unknown.
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Lambley
Sheet 129 SK634463 3 miles NE of Nottingham
Grass strip located off green lane, single hangar bewteen Lambley and Woodborough
Some public paths pass close to threshold of runway. ( i used to fly from here )
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Leapool
Sheet 129 SK582487 3 miles N of Nottingham
Grass strip, believed not currently active.
No viewing details.
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Misk Hill
Sheet 129 SK504494 6 miles NNW of Notts
Active landing strip
No viewing details.
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Oxton.
Sheet 120 SK607520 6 miles N of Notts
Active landing strip.
No viewing details.
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Thurgarton.
Sheet 129 SK678497 7 Miles NE of Notts
Active landing strip, located next to former WW1 landing ground.
No Viewing details.
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Thats all for now, Derbyshire to follow.
Please feel free to post any info you have such as based aircraft or what you might see and photo opportunities etc.
I collate the data and we can grow a spotting database of places to go, including phot ops etc.
Geoff
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Nottinghamshire airfields
Re: Nottinghamshire airfields
Is that the booklet from the NAM Geoff ??
Facinating reading if it's the one I think it is.
Facinating reading if it's the one I think it is.
Re: Nottinghamshire airfields
Its published by Notts county council. and i actually picked it up from the Birthplace of DH Lawrence.
It is a cracking little book, we should publish a national version.
It is a cracking little book, we should publish a national version.
Re: Nottinghamshire airfields
Sure is, and I'd like to thank NAM updater off of our sister site, Fighter Control, for putting me onto it.
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