Currock Hill flying sites
Note: This map shows the location of the gliding site.
CURROCK HILL: Military Landing Ground
Military user: RFC (Royal Flying Corps)
36 [Home Defence] Sqdn (Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c)
Location: Near Currock Hill settlement, roughly 1.5nm S of Prudhoe, 1.5nm NNW of Chopwell and 10nm WSW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne city centre
Period of operation: 1916 to 1917
NOTES: Today CURROCK HILL is a well known gliding site, but are they the same site? It appears they are.
CURROCK HILL: Gliding site with aero-tows
Note: These pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: 1970s to 2000s: Northumbria Gliding Club
Location: 5nm N of Consett, 8nm SW of Newcastle Airport
Period of operation: 1970s (?) to -
Runway: 2000: 06/24 600x50 grass
NOTES: 2000: Powered aircraft may visit, PPR required. In 1977 the only powered aircraft listed as being based here was DHC.1a Chipmunk G-BBSS operated by the Northumbria Gliding Club, presumably for aero-tows.
Could this have been on the site of the WW1 military airfield?
Peter Vercruijsse
This comment was written on: 2018-02-17 22:13:37The WW-I site was at 54.92684N 001.83767W
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