Guildford flying sites
Note: This map only shows the position of Guildford within the UK.
GUILDFORD see also LOSELEY PARK ESTATE
GUILDFORD see also MANOR FARM
GUILDFORD see also WEST CLANDON
GUILDFORD see also WILDFIELDS FARM
GUILDFORD: Temporary flying site?
NOTES: This is a corker I trust you’ll agree? Found in a list of people conducting flying experiments in early 1910 that C C Turner made in his book Old Flying Days published in about 1927. Within this most intriguing list on pages 143 to 145, amongst so many of considerable interest, this item surely stands out?
He states that a Mr M H Fentum Philips was conducting experiments with a “Helicopter aeroplane” in the Guildford area. Is anything now known about this? It is known that several early helicopter experiments did lift off from the ground, albeit briefly and usually just for a few feet in altitude, (usually coming to grief of course), so - was this one of them?
GUILDFORD: Private airstrip
NOTES: I have been reliably told there was a strip operating in the 1970s just NW of Guildford and W of the A3. Does anybody now know more about this strip?
Cameron Wilson
This comment was written on: 2020-02-23 21:52:49Looking at google earth images from 1999 an airstrip can be see just below Wood Street Village NW/W of Guildford as described here. It appears at 51.243491, -0.634826 on google earth. I believe this is the airstrip that this post mentions, and that it was in operation until 2009, as this is the last year that satellite images show a clearly mown airstrip.
Michael T Holder
This comment was written on: 2020-05-21 16:25:33From the Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 05 September 1931 - Berkshire Aviation Tours Ltd present their original Air Circus at Peasmarsh, Portsmouth Road, Guildford on Sept 7th and 8th. Peasmarsh is just over 2 miles south of Guildford. Admission one shilling (5p) for Adults sixpence for kids and 5 bob for a flight.
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