Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields

[JustaFew]

While visiting family, had a drive around the area which was admin when Hamble was active, College of Air Training. The area is now a housing estate, surprisingly, couldn't see any buildings from the CoAT days, although the railway is still there. A few garden fences straddle the line. The airfield had been ploughed.

[tribekey]

Ibsley control tower (which survived mainly due to the fact it has concrete ceilings as opposed to the wooden ones often used) is currently centre of an ongoing effort to attract funding and protected status to have it restored to ww2 original condition. Allthough the rest of the airfield has gone, mostly due to gravel extraction in the 60's/70's there are a few minor huts/hardstandings still visible.the airfield fire station, for example, is now a private house. There is indeed a memorial stood at what was the north east corner of the airfield.

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!]

I see nobody's mentioned Blackpool yet.


Not Squires Gate, but the one that's now the Zoo

[time expired]

Whatever happened to the following airfields in the Coventry
area?, Honiley,home of 605 Sqn.RAuxAF,Bramcote, HMS Gamecock,
1833 Sqn.RNVR.These were places I plane spotted as a kid until
my parent emigrated with me to Canada in 1954.Also in the Radford
area of Coventry was a dummy airfield during the war years,this
was our play area as kids.As the city council began building an
estate we set upon a guerilla campaign against this estate,its
probably called vandalism these days,however we were quite
successful in that our campaign as it was mentioned in the local
newspaper and a fourman police patrol was instituted which made
it even more challenging.As we were not consulted by the city
council we felt quite justified in our actions.
Regards

[cvt person]

Honiley is very much still there, it use to be the test track for Lucas but now serves the same purpose for prodrive. It will be where the prodrive formula one team will be based. Bramcote is also still there and still in military ownership its the guerka barracks. Radford is under a housing estate. It may well have been a mock airfield during the war indeed long after the war the area was still called Radford aerodrome. However it was real earlier, it was developed during the first world war alongside the Daimler works. Aircraft from the Daimler and the Standard motor company were test flown from there before delivery to the military. It fell into disuse once the military contracts were complete and by 1935 plans were in existance to turn it into a housing estate. The last known landing was in 1935 with the forced landing of an RAF aircraft that managed to collide with one of the goal posts on the football pitches that then occupied the site.

[time expired]

CTV Person,Thanks for your reply,I found it very interesting.I did
not realise that Radford really was an active airfield, as my family
only moved to Coventry in 1940 from Nuneaton, just in time for
November Blitz.
Regards

[reverserunlocked]

Anyone know what this field is, to the west of Newcastle Airport? Looks very intact from the google earth picture.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF...,0.107288&z=14

[ZH875]

Ouston airfield.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Ouston

[Talkdownman]

EGQO, 'OU', Home of the Ouston TACAN OUZ (ISTR).......

[On-MarkBob]

Stormy Down by Bridgend in South Wales has been almost completely lost to a quarry.

[Sir George Cayley]

A few more..

Hull (Paull) just fields now,
Alexandra Park, Manchester (Playing fields west of Princess Parkway),
Tatton Pk Ches where No1 Parrott Shoot Sqdn used to drop into the lake-
ah the Whitley Kiss
Hells Bay west of Abersoch
Heston
Hounslow Gt West Aerodrome
Lymnpe in Kent
The Spitfire factory north of Birmingham featured in "Sigh for a Merlin"
The original Gatwick (OK the Behive is still there, but)
Acaster Malbis (some will say its still there but I love the name)

Going but not quite gone is Huddersfield, Crossland Moor, catch it while you can.

Lastly, one I wish would disappear............



HEATHROW


Sir George Cayley

[LowNSlow]

Does anybody have the Google Earth location for RAF Lisset, home of 158 Sqn's Halifaxes?

I think I've found it here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF...,0.107288&z=14 ?

[682al]

Lisset is here, almost on the coast, south of Bridlington.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF...,0.058365&z=14
It is thinly disguised as Liscombe Farm in the novel Johnny Kinsman, by John Watson - still a good read, by the way.

[chevvron]

Tried looking for Hooton Park on flashearth the other day but couldn't find it.

[MReyn24050]

LowNSlow

The airfield you found was Ouston Airfield, now I believe a TA barracks.

[windriver]

I have a csv (name,long,lat) and kml set (Google Earth) for about 1600 UK airfields active/disused/long gone - A handful of entries need updating when I get round to it, but the vast majority are correct. .. PM if you'd like a copy

[682al]

Tried looking for Hooton Park on flashearth the other day but couldn't find it.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF...,0.058365&z=14
It's not easy to spot, but there's some concrete, the hangars and a few other buildings.
(The unsold Vauxhalls are another clue!)

[MReyn24050]

682al

At Post#74 you gave that reference as being Lisset Airfield?

[ZH875]

Hooton Park looks more like this.

[682al]

How odd, ZH875's view of Hooton Park is the one I thought I'd linked to!