Light Aircraft Down - Buckingham

[bartonflyer]

Originally Posted by INeedTheFull90

If you look up Brereton Lane on west side of m6 you can see an east/west runway shape with hard surfaces at either touch down zone.

Thanks - I'll have to fly over and take a look!

[ETOPS]

The alignment is around 25/07 so points towards the centre of Holmes Chapel from just a few yards west of the motorway. Two rectangles of tarmac separated by around 400 yards...

Would still make a great strip today...

[India Four Two]

If you download "UKAirfields.kmz" from :

UK Airfields POIs for Google Earth

you will see it is labelled "Dawfields"

[GGR155]

A friend of mine worked for Arrows back in the 80's. I visited their offices a couple of times and was always intrigued at seeing a pilots licence and IMC rating in frames behind the reception desk belonging to the company boss along with the certificate of company registration.

[INeedTheFull90]

Somewhat exactly is the story of the runway? Why two patches either end? Is the idea to touch down on the Tarmac and roll out on the grass? Or isn't just a matter of the runway being started but not finished?

[bartonflyer]

As ever Google is your friend - some background here

Sproston Green / Dawfields

[INeedTheFull90]

Thanks for that. That looks an interesting site. Never heard of it.

[Above The Clouds]

Why two patches either end? Is the idea to touch down on the Tarmac and roll out on the grass? Or isn't just a matter of the runway being started but not finished?

He could not get planning permission for a full tarmac runway so he placed the two hard ends to land the Citation, I believe it landed there once then the fraud squad caught up with him, but not before he had sold the house to a relative for a pound so they could not impound it.

I still remember him crashing the C340 while trying to land on someones drive way whilst arriving at a party, yes you read it correctly.

He finally went down for fraudulent loan applications for property developemnt but of course spent the money on his lavish live style, 1 x Citation, 1 x Hughes 500, 1 x Beech Duchess, 1 x Cessna 340 a personnel hangar at EGCC south side .

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

I still remember him crashing the C340 while trying to land on someones drive way whilst arriving at a party, yes you read it correctly.

Any references to this? AAIB report?

[tmmorris]

Longleat?

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources...-BKAN10-91.pdf

[Oldpilot55]

It looks like Darwinism was at work.

[Above The Clouds]

tmmorris

Longleat?

That's the one.

[Piltdown Man]

What an interesting person. A little googling and you'll see that this pilot has an amazing past. And if you combine his aviation background (twins, jets, helicopters) with his personal background (big business, fraud, association with "new Labour"), you should ask the question - why on earth was he in a nasty aircraft like a PA38? These aircraft are only flown when you don't know any better. Add in the possible texting before impact (surely not after) and then ask was yourself the question, was this an own goal?

I would not be surprised if unpleasant things rise to the surface over the next month or so.

PM

[Agaricus bisporus]

texted his family to say the light aircraft had spun “out of control” moments before the crash in Buckinghamshire last Wednesday.

...means he texted to say the aircraft had spun out of control before crashing, not that he texted before crashing.

So presumably he survived the crash for a while.

[cockney steve]

Or, one could make a deduction from the hype,-
" He lost , then regained control of the aircraft, known in some circles, not unjustifiably, as the"traumahawk" During the Adrenaline-rush of relief, he texted the news, unfortunately, this detracted from his primary tasks
A viate N avigate C ommunicate neglecting "A" allowed the Traumahawk to take a second bite, this time , it won.

OTOH, he could have been looking for a "way out" so his family could claim the insurance. Wouldn.t be the first...Man in the Canoe? Lord Lucan?

there's more to surface, i'm sure.
A man who seemingly had the ability to divert large sums of other peoples' cash on a luxury lifestyle, doesn't suddenly downgrade from a Rolls to a beat-up ex- taxi Mondeo, for no reason.!