Michaelwood
MICHEALWOOD FARM: Private airstrip
Note: These three pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
In the first (2014) picture the 02/20 runway is clearly marked at both ends. In the second (2018) picture these markings have gone. Could this be an indication that the strip is no longer used, despite being clearly visible? The third picture (2018) shows the general location.
Location: About 0.5nm E of the Michaelwood service areas on the M5
Period of operation: 2010 to ?
Runway: (2014) 02/20 400 grass
NOTES: The initial info source some years ago was the AAIB report EW/G2012/06/15 which describes a “Michaelwood Airstrip, near Lower Wick”.
Another AAIB report in 2010 gives another airstrip location fairly nearby but closer to Stone on the A38. I can find no evidence of this, but could it be the same site? If anybody can kindly offer advice, this will be most welcome. NOTE: In December 2023 I was kindly contacted by Mr Dave Kurek who directed me to this location - see WOODFORD AIRSTRIP.
Having travelled across Europe for over forty years, and flown in every country in western Europe, (plus a fair number elsewhere), I think few people are aware of the fabulous and quite unique heritage we have in the UK regarding private airstrips. I have been told that for the last fifty years or more, and any one point in time , we have had at least five hundred or more.
To put this into context, no other country in the world has had so many squeezed into such a small geographical area.
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