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Old 28th Nov 2015, 13:58
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Jan Olieslagers
 
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Stretton runways

I am confused about the situation in Stretton - coordinates 53.3437 N 2.5210 W
I see what looks like a WW2 military base, cut in two by the M56 motorway, the northern part converted into a business park. On the South side, the E/W runway is partly marked unusable but not entirely. Moreover, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2...3.3437/-2.5210 suggests a shortish parallel runway on the North-East side. Then again, looking at satellite images, I see what looks like a grass runway just South of the perimeter road, with a kind of apron and some hangars at the West end; and another grass runway, equaly oriented East-West, a few 100 m further South.

Are all four of these really existant active runways? Who are the operator(s)?
Anyone acquainted round there?
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