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Old 21st Feb 2021, 18:25
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Lordflasheart
 
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According to their website the AA moved to Basingstoke in 1973 -

https://www.breakdowncover.org.uk/the-aa/aa-history/

which suggests this ephemeral airstrip was a solely AA user from 1973, as a convenient ancillary to their maintenance base - Fairoaks or wherever, and perhaps terminated by the rolling housing estate or the introduction of the Lear 35A in 1984.

A photo of Apache G-APZE included on the website but
"Apache was G-APZE, and using G-INFO, was with the AA from 1963 until 1972"


From an authoritative source, the Apache was replaced -

"in 1972 by a Navajo PA31. From May 1975 the aircraft was used an an air ambulance - part of the AA 5-Star service to repatriate motorists stranded on the Continent through illness or accident."
As an aside, according to - Hampshire Airfields - the Basingstoke Master Plan in the late 1920s included provision for a Municipal Airport, location unknown, but it does not look as if the idea took off.

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