All good news from Sandown Airport since it was bought by Jonathan Owen and Tony Fowler a few weeks ago.
A landline telephone has now been installed - the new number is 01983 716 926. E-mail will be available by the weekend -
[email protected] and the website (
www.eghn.org.uk) is about to be updated. Free WiFi is also available.
The tower frequency remains 119.275MHz. Please note that PPR is
not required.
Landing fees have been reduced (what?). Typically a helicopter can now land for only £10.00. Full details are available on
www.eghn.org.uk / landing fees. Regretably fuel is still not available anywhere on the Isle of Wight, however efforts are being made at Sandown to resolve this.
Work to improve the facilities continues. Carla is still providing refreshments from the catering trailer whilst the team of volunteers labour to fit out a new cafe / clubroom for her.
We are on the look out for some new seaweed to feed to the pet met man (he lives somewhere under the tower). Hopefully he will provide us with some up-market weather rather that the rubbish so far this year.
So what is missing? Guess it is you. So get that aircraft out of the hangar and set course for Sandown - like now! See you there.