Bewdley
BEWDLEY: Private airfield (Aka DROPPING WELL FARM)
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Location: SE of Bewdley and on the SW outskirts of Kidderminster
Runway: 09/27 grass
Note: A 2007 Google Earth image shows the runway as 10/28 470 grass
NOTES:
I thought it might be worthwhile to include my notes made many years ago:
Possibly known as DROPPING WELL FARM? The AAIB accident report EW/G2003/06/25 doesn’t make it clear, (nor does it need to), if the actual airfield is called DROPPING WELL FARM as after suffering engine failure on take-off the aircraft ended up in the field next door. I expect this is probably the same farm but I can’t take that for granted of course.
Yet another example as you can see, of the difficulties involved in trying to track down the names of many private airfields.
PROBLEM SOLVED
Today, (this note being added in August 2016), with so much information available on the inter-web, as I often call it, I had no difficulty in confirming that this airstrip is indeed, DROPPINGS WELL FARM.
The only aspect which seems a tad confusing, is why is it known as BEWDLEY? When, it is clearly just beyond the south-western outskirts of Kidderminster.
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