Bitteswell airstrip
BITTESWELL: Private airfield
Aerial view
Note: This picture (2015) was obtained from Google Earth ©
Location: On property owned by Bitteswell Farm Eggs, just E of Ashby Lane, NNE of Bitteswell, just W of the A426, NW of Lutterworth
Period of operation: 1998 to -
Runway: 2008: 13/31 300x20 grass
2016: 13/31 276 grass 01/19 580 grass
Note: Can evidence be seen of a short E/W runway at the southern end of 01/19? Or was it just the way the grass was being mowed.
NOTES: It appears that just one microlight aircraft was resident here during the summer of 1998.
In 2008 it seems the Ikarus C42 G-EGGI was based here and crashed in May 2008.
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