Black Spring Farm
BLACK SPRING FARM: Private airstrip (Aka CASTLE BYTHAM)
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: 2001: Mr J Seed
Location: On Black Spring Farm, just S of Swayfield village, 2nm N of Castle Bytham and 5nm NE of RAF COTTESMORE
Period of operation: 1990s to -
Runway: 15/33 500x20 grass
According to the Google Earth © pictures above, the 15/33 runway has always been 440 metres long, since around 2003? The 08/26 runway was about 250 metres long and only existed for a fairly brief period? The 2010 picture above shows this runway.
NOTES: The initial information about this airstrip came from a report in an AAIB Bulletin.
According to the AAIB report EW/G2015/06/20 it seems there is/was another private airstrip near to Castle Bytham, where the Denny Kitfox G-BSCH was based. In this case it appears the grass runway was 310 metres long.
However, another AAIB report, EW/G2014/11/12 states that this airfield had two runways, 15/33 about 435 metres long, and 08/26 about 285 metres long. This could be where another Denny Kitfox, G-KITY was based?
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