Glebe Farm
GLEBE FARM: Private airstrip
Note: The first three pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©. The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
Operated by: Mr Mike Barnard?
Location: W of the A423, roughly 3.5nm SSE of Southam
Period of operation: From the early 2000s (2005/6?) to around 2018
Note: According to Google Earth © images, whose dating system is often unreliable of course, there is no evidence in 2004 and it certainly seems disused by 2021.
Runway: 04/22 450x20 grass
NOTES: This is an excellent example of how using the ‘web’ can be so useful in discovery and research. Having learnt about GLEBE FARM, Southam, I discovered there are two Southams listed in my UK map book, one in GLOUCESTERSHIRE the other in WARWICKSHIRE. Putting a search on Glebe Farm, Southam I found Glebe Farm Holistics and on this web site found a picture of a small part of the farm that certainly bore all the signs of a ‘farm strip’, plus a mention that Mike Barnard is involved.
Another check sequence revealed that Mike Barnard flew the Tipsy Nipper G-ATUH into ‘Flying For Fun’ from GLEBE FARM, Southam so presumably (?) it was based here? A look at Google Earth however soon identified the site.
ANOTHER MENTION
Mr Mike Barnard and GLEBE FARM appeared again in the September 2007 edition of Popular Flying when his newly built Vans RV-6A G-RVCE took off from here to transit to TURWESTON presumably for the flight testing programme?
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