Legs - thanks for the info'.
Just out of interest, what are revenue traffic levels at Oxford like now, I understand that the commercial flying training side of things went a bit quiet over the last 18 months, and it crossed my mind that the new owners might just have bought the airport as an asset stripping exercise.
Like most airfields in England, it would be worth far more as housing or industrial land than it is as an airport, are there any planning restrictions which would prevent this happening?