Drayton St Leonard

DRAYTON St LEONARD:  Private airstrip (Mainly for microlight use)

Note:  These pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©

 

Operated by: 2001: Mr G Farrant
 

Location: E of Drayton St Leonard, SW of Great Holcombe, 7nm SE of Oxford

Period of operation: 1990s to
 

Runway: 2001: 06/24  390x14   grass

2009:  06/24   610   grass

 

NOTES: Pegasus weight-shift models and the AX3 were made here at one time it seems. (See 'Comment' below).

It also appears that the Bölkow BO208C Junior G-ATXZ, (ex D-ELNE), has been based here since March 2015.

 

 
 

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Terry Clark

This comment was written on: 2018-01-07 00:21:18
 
Not quite true that AX3s were actually made here, but they were imported from France and assembled and modified to UK spec here. We had 2 of them at Halton, GMYFI and GMYKA, both of which were tremendous fun to fly albeit a bit slow. Bill Sherlock, the importer, would often turn up at Halton with a 'special' which he had just put together, mostly with a different engine. The 'standard' engine was the Rotax 503 50hp 2 cyl 2 stroke, but he also at various times fitted a 4 stroke Rotax twin, a Rotax 912 4 cyl 4 stroke and the 64 hp Rotax 562 water cooled twin. Needless to say, the 912 powered one was incredible; after a ground run of about 5 feet, it would leap into the air in a horizontal attitude and climb like a rocket.
 

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