Redlands
REDLANDS: Microlight strip also available to some GA types, mainly ultralights?
Note: This picture (2007) was obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: 2000: M4 Microlights
2001: Joe & Sarah Smith, Redlands Airfield & Microlight Club
In 2010 at least also a very active parachuting centre
Location: 1nm to 3 nm E of Swindon depending on source information
Period of operation: 1988 to August 2020
Note: This map is reproduced with the kind permission of Pooleys Flight Equipment Ltd. Copyright Robert Pooley 2017
Runways: 2000: 06/24 407x11 grass 17/35 274x13 grass
2007: 06/24 650 grass (no info about 17/35)
2011: According to an AAIB report they were now using two parallel 06/24 runways
2017: 06/24 North 700x11 grass 06/24 South 330x11 grass
17/35 320x9 grass
NOTES: We flew pretty close to this site en route to, and back from, the PFA Rally at KEMBLE in 2003 and in 2004 hoping to take a picture of it. We were really looking for it both times but failed to see it. Perhaps our navigation was too accurate and it was underneath us! Quite a common problem flying light aircraft and recognised from the 1920s.
In October 2020 Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', sent me the sad news that REDLANDS closed, after 32 years, in August 2020.
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