Ilmer
ILMER: Private airstrip later airfield (Aka SHROVE FURLONG FARM)
Note: Picture by the author.
Originally an airstrip, it appears that from about 2003 a 01/19 runway was added, which I regard as making it an airfield. Simply because an airstrip, singular, is just that.
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Location: About 0.75nm NW of Ilmer, roughly 3nm E of Thame town centre, S of the A4129
Period of operation: 1980s (?) to -
Runway: 09/27 620 grass
Note: The 2003 picture above seems to show a 01/19 runway being added, initially about 250 metres long but later extended to 300 metres.
NOTES: The Jodel D117A G-BEDD has been based here, perhaps for many years? Mr Mike Howlett booked in from ILMER for the PFA Rally in 2004 with G-BEDD.
So very often a location is well known by two names, and this is a good example. See the SHROVE FURLONG FARM listing which I have kept. My memory cannot be relied upon, but, when learning to fly in this area in the late 1980s, I feel fairly sure we knew this strip as ILMER.
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