Coetir Bach Farm
COETIR BACH FARM: Private airstrip (Aka MAESYBONT and CEFNEITHIN)
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: Mr Tony Ware (Later Mr Howard it appears)
Location: Just SSW of Maesybont, W of the B4297. About 10nm ESE of Carmarthen
Period of operation: 2000s (?) to -
Runway: 16/34 380 grass
NOTES: News about the 'expansion' of this strip after planning permission was given releasing it from the ’28 day rule’ appeared in the October 2004 issue of FLYER magazine.
No other details were found until I saw AAIB report EW/G2004/08/14. This quite serious accident, (involving a rare type of aeroplane), Bolkow BO-207 D-EHYX resulted from bizarre circumstances. The pilot, established on finals to land, suddenly found he was being stung by a wasp trapped in his tee-shirt!
WRITTEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO (When I was still flying)
There is another aspect too which seems to escape a rational explanation? The AAIB reports this strip is listed as being LONG LIFE FARM on the ‘half-mil’ charts. I have one right here in front of me when writing this, the latest in fact, (as every pilot has a duty to fly with the very latest charts of course, and who would dare not to !?!), but no LONG LIFE FARM is on it. Nor any other airstrip anywhere near this location.
Huw Davies
This comment was written on: 2020-11-18 13:14:04There certainly was a Long Life Farm in Maesybont. My mother lived there in the 1940s and appears on the school admission list for 1926 to 1948. Long Life no longer (no pun intended) appears on the post office post code searches.for the Maesybont area. I can only assume that the farm ceased to be and became a landing strip.
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