Sandown Airport to close
In a letter to airport users and interested parties, dated Aug 19th 2010. The owners of the airfield issued the following statement..
'Closure of Sandown Isle of Wight Airport'
'You will be aware that the airport has long standing viabilty issues. In our opinion this is unlikely to change in the future. With regret we write to inform you of the closure of the airport as Friday 1st of October. All flight operations will be prohibited and the runways and taxiways will cease to exist from this date.
Groundwork investigations for the future development of the site will begin in October'
Sad news indeed.