Lowest Airfield in the UK
 

There is a thread about the highest AIRFIELD in the UK but who claims the lowest (discounting the SEA!)?

Mine Rufforth (York) 65` amsl Home of York Gliding centre

Clear winner Marshfield............... - 6 feet

Rufforth is positively an altiport compared with Fenland at 6' and Barra which is technically 5' AMSL but is submerged at high tide!

TheOddOne

Lowest strip
 

Blink
It's Marshland, not Marshfield ;)

What about Southport beach? Or doesn't that count? Have they succeeded in reopening it?

Proper airfields, not beaches > Shoreham is at 27ft, Caernarvon must be about the same.

For airfields with a hard runway, Shoreham would take some beating, at 7 ft.

Stoke Airfield (Kent) at 5' rates - er - highly - in the list.


Why do I get the odd feeling this thread will be followed by more of the widest/narrowest/curliest/highest trees/lowest cables variety?

Barra IS a proper airfield - it's licensed, has scheduled flights to it, and FISOs directing you on the ground. How much more proper do you want? Who said anything about the runway surface?

Sandtoft - 11ft, coincidentally the approximate depth of some of the potholes..

Combineharvester, given your location I'm surprised you don't mention Dundee at 17ft or Dornoch at 3ft.

AIP gives Caernarfon @ 14 ft, Southern half mil chart gives it as 1 ft. Take your pick!

I can really see some students mixing up their qfe/qnh at that one !

Admittedly, only used for gliding ( at least until 631VGS moved out to Woodvale in 2006), but the grass strip on South Camp at RAF Sealand was only about 10' AMSL.

The lowest non beach strip in Scotland is Dornoch at 3ft......a great little place to visit once you have avoided getting shot down at Tain range!!!:ok:

Not quite the UK :} but Newcastle County Wicklow (EINC) has an official elevation of 1 ft, a statistic that those inspecting the runway state in the winter months will find quite accurate.

On EINC, Using Dublin's QNH it is 50ft below Sea Level......

Newtownards at 9ft for all the tarmac runways?

Not really, at 29ft/mb, QNH=QFE to the nearest mb.

(And even if you were working to decimal points, you'd never notice on the altimeter anyhow).

G

Strange to tell but Sealand went up & down with the tide ... special arrangements had to be made for setting up INS tables in the MU.