Somewhere to land near Shrewsbury?
 

I need to visit friends in Shrewsbury, looking at the CAA chart there don't seem to be any airfields close by. Any suggestions?

RAF Shawbury isn't that far away.

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Nice little airfeild by the name of sleap about 10mls north of shrewsbury near to wem.

Nick.

Or RAF Cosford...

I do wonder at people's map reading skills these days :(

Sleap gets my vote. Lovely airfield & nice people. Get an arrival brief, though, as Shawbury is rather close and Sleap's inside the MATZ.

Tim

Criky, Shewsbury is surrounded by lovely airfields. Sleap, Rednal (PPO), Sherlowe (PPO) to name but 3.

Sleap's the obvious choice.

SSD

Ok, thanks for the advice guys, it's Sleap then.

Well I was doing it from memory.. now that I am near a map:

Shrewsbury town centre to Sherlowe: 4.9NM
Shrewsbury town centre to Shawbury: 5.4NM
Shrewsbury town centre to Sleap: 7.1NM
Shrewsbury town centre to Rednal: 10.2NM
Shrewsbury town centre to RAF Cosford: 16.2NM

Andy :ok:

Somewhere to land near shrewsbury
 

Hi

I think the following are all usable airfields / strips near shrewsbury apart from Sleap & Shawbury

Great Ness, gridref SJ403181 or Lat / Long N5245-W00253


Harnage, grid ref SJ565056 or Lat / Long N5238-W00238


Mill Farm, Hughley, grid ref SJ563980 or Lat / Long N5234-W00238


New Hall Farm, Hughley, grid ref SJ565995 or Lat / Long N5235-W00238


Old Coppice Farm, Lythbank, grid ref SJ466072 or Lat / Long N5239-W00247 Ken Anderson tel no. 01743-872805


Nesscliffe Camp, grid ref SJ370174 or Lat / Long N5245-W00256


Forest Farm, Westbury, grid ref SN335075 or Lat / Long N5240-W00003


Regards

Martin Burney

nesscliffe is helipad only I believe.......