Originally Posted by Lordflasheart (Post 10994925)

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From an authoritative source, the Apache was replaced - "in 1972 by a Navajo PA31. From May 1975 the aircraft was used an an air ambulance - part of the AA 5-Star service to repatriate motorists stranded on the Continent through illness or accident."
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Originally Posted by pax britanica (Post 10994871)

Chevron

Thank you for your reply. Icannot find valentines farm on G maps but the Pub of course is quite close to the bypass and as I said I didnt really have any idea of the type it was the noise that got my attention and by the time it took off it was mostly out o site because o the way the land lies . Perhaps even more likely is the emergency landing that at some stage had to fly away again because i never saw any sign of an aircraft there again. Thanks for the trouble.

I suppose if the RAF ever give up on the Chinooks Odiham could be come London Basingstoke Airport lol

PB

Originally Posted by AirUK (Post 10995018)

Pax britanica,

There is an airstrip quite clearly visible on Google Earth between 1999 and 2017, in the field immediately to the west of The Waterwitch. The strip seems to have stopped being mown since 2017. Is this Valentine's Farm?

UK.

Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 10994578)

I've looked at some old OS maps of the area and can't see any airfield marked - however on a map that was made of bench marks(!!), when they were laying out the ring road, there appears to have been a linear airstrip type feature just west of the Black Dam Roundabout, just south of the London Road on the edge of the Common oriented SW-NE - this is pretty much the site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel now - accessed by Old Common Road

Originally Posted by medod (Post 10995234)

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Originally Posted by ShyTorque (Post 10994930)

I have a vague memory of the airstrip by the Water Witch pub in use and then of it being replaced by the one at Scotland Farm, by J5 of the M3.