Brown Shutters Farm
BROWN SHUTTERS FARM: Private airfield
Pictures courtesy of John Boyce, creator of the BSFA website.
Location: 4nm W of Trowbridge, 5nm SSE of Bath
Period of operations: 1988 to -
Runways: 1988? (Evidence of a runway - 07/25 300 grass - but not in the same position as the present 07/25 runway)
2006: 13/31 300 grass
(2016): 15/33 529x16 grass 07/25 420x20 grass
NOTES: Following a request for more information, in November 2016 I was kindly contacted by John Boyce who has produced a very nice web-site for this airfield. See: http://brownshuttersfarmairfield.co.uk/
It appears that the airstrip, then with a single runway, was laid out in 1988 by the ex-Fleet Air Arm pilot Eric Newbigin for use by his DH.82A Tiger Moth. In around 2007/08 the site was reconfigured with a second runway being added.
In June 2023 Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', informed me that a video was available showing a flight from here in a single-seat flex-wing.
See: https://youtu.be/_AVOWS3T248
Note: For some odd reason highlighting this and going for a link does not appear to work, (in mid 2023 at any rate), but going direct to Youtube it does play.
Well worth watching, at least in many respects. I have never been prone to airsickness, even when being treated to advanced aerobatics, but watching this flimsy machine bouncing around in the air certainly had me feeling uncomfortable - sitting in a seat watching a computer screen!
Trev Jackson
This comment was written on: 2018-09-30 10:08:55My first visit on Thursday in my Skyranger Swift. Although I only ppr'd by phone, I received a comprehensive airfield brief and was made very welcome by the folks I met. I'll be back !
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