Orsett Hall Hotel
ORSETT HALL HOTEL: Helicopter landing area (Once with airstrip)
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: Orsett Hall Hotel, Restaurant & Spa
Location: W of the A128, just NE of Orsett, 4nm NNE of Tilbury town centre and 6nm SW of Basildon town centre
Period of operation: For aviation use - 1970s(?) to -
NOTES: I have Mr Trevor Sexton to thank for pointing this location out. He tells us that aircraft and helicopters visited in the 1970s. Helicopters still do as the picturea above show. Indeed, if you look closely the 2011 picture shows a helicopter on what is clearly the 'helipad' used in recent years at least. Unless I am badly mistaken, (which is entirely possible), the 2018 detail shows a Robinson R44.
As always bald statistics can be very misleading. For example from 2006 to 2016 it is claimed that R44s were involved in 42 fatal crashes in the USA alone. But - up until the end of 2019 some 6,330 had been sold worldwide. Sales that every other (mostly) civilian helicopter manufacturer can only dream of.
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