Kirkbride
KIRKBRIDE: Military aerodrome now civil aerodrome
Military users: WW2: RAF Maintenance Command 41 Group
12 MU (Maintenance Unit)
Operated by: 1980s to 2003: Mr Gordon Dixon, White Heather Hotel
Flying club: Lorton Aero Club
Location: SW of The Laythes village, 9.5nm W of Carlisle (other records say 11nm W of Carlisle)
Period of operation: Military: 1939 to 1960 Civil: (1985 or before) to present day?
Note: This map is reproduced with the kind permission of Pooleys Flight Equipment Ltd. Copyright Robert Pooley 2014.
Runways: WW2: 10/28 1280x46 hard 05/23 914x46 hard
16/34 1143x46 hard
1990: 10/28 1280x46 hard 05/23 1050x46 hard
16/34 750x46 hard
2000: 10/28 1280x46 hard
NOTES: In 1990 it was noted that runway 16/34 was in poor condition and should only be used when the surface wind precluded use of the other runways. Typically, as the years passed by the options for visiting pilots has dwindled to just one runway.
In the mid 1970s it appears that just one aircraft was based here: Cessna F.172M G-BBJZ operated by the Border Flying Group.
Venue for the PFA ‘Solway Strut Fly-in’ on the 10th & 11th August 2002.
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