GREAT YELDHAM:  Private airstrip     (Aka GREAT YELDHAM MANOR)



Note:  All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©

















Location:  Just W of Great Yeldham village on the A1017, about 6.5nm SE of Haverhill town centre and about 8nm WSW of Sudbury town centre

Period of operation:  1990s (?) to 2013?    Gone by 2015


Runway:  06/24   570   grass


NOTES:  If anybody can kindly offer advice, this will be most welcome.

In an interview with Alex Harris, recently appointed as the National Coach for the LAA (Light Aircraft Association) in the September 2024 issue of Light Aviation magazine, he revealed that his father, Michael J W Harris, had had a share in the Druine D.62B Condor, G-BADM. This being based here from October 1992 until May 2004. He had his first flight in G-BADM aged just two and tells us that the strip was usually called GREAT YELDHAM INTERNATIONAL.   

His father was a captain with Titan Airways and his mother held a PPL. Plus, along with Mr K Wordsworth, his father had built the Condor. So, perhaps not at all surprisingly, Alex has led a most varied and accomplished life in aviation.