Bossington
BOSSINGTON: Private airstrip
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Note: Previously known as HILDON or HILDON-le-NOBLE and STOCKBRIDGE. See seperate entry for HILDON-le-NOBLE
Note: Picture by the author, when about to depart after delivering the Sopwith Pup replica from Devon. All closed up and everybody going home.
Operated by: John Fairey until 2009
Location: E of the B3084, roughly 2.5nm SW of Stockbridge and 6.5nm NNW of Romsey
Period of operation: 1962 to –
Runway: 09/27 660 grass
Note: I am intrigued by the markings on the runway in the 1999 and 2005 pictures. They look to me like the markings I might expect to see if model flying had been taking place. Can anybody kindly offer advice?
NOTES: John Fairey was the second son of Sir Richard Fairey, (who founded Fairey Aviation in 1915) and he based his changeable collection of aircraft here – which has included a Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire trainer G-ASOZ, a replica Fairey Flycatcher, a Saab Safir and a Hunting Provost.
Note: In May 2020 Graham Frost contacted me to say the two-seater Spitfire was probably G-AIDN. And added that a Currie Wot was also on the airfield.
He died after the engine exploded and caught fire in a Hunting Provost, aged 74, on the 23 July 2009 - but it was not his example he was flying. The strip with its two co-joined hangars has been kept going and in early 2014 was home to at least five aircraft plus a flex-wing microlight. I moved the Sopwith Pup replica N5199 (G-BZND) from WATCHFORD FARM in Devon here in early July 2014 - which hopefully will be flying again in a year or so.
On my visit I saw an Avid Flyer, a Gardan Minicab, a Piper Cub, a Tecnam Sierra and I cannot remember what the fifth was. Ditto with the flex-wing microlight type.
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