Eaglescott
EAGLESCOTT: Civil aerodrome
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Note: Other pictures by the author unless specified.
Operated by: 1984 to 2000?: Devon Airsports
Activities: GA private, training(?) and gliding
Flying school: Delta Aviation, Devon Airsports, Eaglescott School of Flying
Location: S of B3217, 10nm SSE of Barnstaple
Period of operation: 1983 to -
Note:This map of the airfield is reproduced with the kind permission of Pooleys Flight Equipment Ltd. Copyright Robert Pooley 2014.
Runways: 2000: 08/26 600x18 grass
Note: An 'Emergency strip' of roughly 300m orientated roughly 16/34 was also available in 2000
2003: 08/26 600 grass 15/33 290 grass
2009: 07/25 600 grass 15/33 255 grass
2017: 07/25 600 grass 15/33 310 grass
A PERSONAL NOTE
On the 29th April 2000, with glorious weather forecast, my wife and I decided that for once a trip to Cornwall was possible and we departed from TOP FARM in the Cessna 172 G-JVMD to land initially at FILTON as I really did want that famous site in my log book. On telephoning Eaglescott from Filton for permission to visit I was told the airfield was closed as it was waterlogged due to recent torrential rains. On expressing my disappointment and explaining that our objective was to make a night stop at Eaglescott, I was asked if I had any experience of flying from grass strips, especially very wet grass strips. On explaining that indeed I had, as I regularly flew from a farm strip, they then told me that we were more than welcome.
JUST A COMMENT
When looking at the picture 'Another view', added in early 2017, it looks to me that a Blanik glider can be seen, just beyond the tail of Mike Delta. If I am correct, and I feel fairly confident that I am, the Blanik glider was something of a sensation when I was a lad back in the late 1950s, or early 1960s, because it was constructed in aluminium - very much a novelty then - and still the case today I believe.
In late September 2008 I was very kindly treated to two cable launches in the Blanik L13, OK3702, from Bobovice in the Czech Republic, west of Prague. I am not normally given to being overly sentimental, but what a lovely experience to fly in a such a type remembered from all those years ago.
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