Stonefield Park
STONEFIELD PARK: Private airfield (Aka CHILBOLTON)
Note: Pictures by the author unless specified.
Note:The second picture was obtained from Google Earth ©
It clearly shows how close it is to RAF CHILBOLTON.
Operated by: Stonefield Park & Chilbolton Flying Club. From 2012 solely Chilbolton Flying Club
Activities: GA private, micro-lights and classic aircraft restoration by Cliff Lovell - Hants Light Plane Services (Now closed)
Flying club/school: 2000s: Chilbolton Flying Club
Maintenance: M3 Hants Light Plane Services
Location: On southern extremity of the old military aerodrome with the runway possibly just outside the boundary. N of A30, 2nm SE of Chilbolton, 5 nm SSE of Andover
Period of operation: 1979 to -
Note: This map is reproduced with the kind permission of Pooleys Flight Equipment Ltd. Copyright Robert Pooley 2014.
Runway: 06/24 411x18 grass
Helipad: Concrete area just NE of Control point
NOTES: In 2010 the Christavia G-MRED was based here. Apparently the only flying example in the UK.
PERSONAL MEMORIES
Many instructors will pronounce that this airfield is too marginal for a Cessna 172, but they fail to appreciate how the type can be operated. With two on board and half tanks, a 400 metre strip is more than enough even in nill wind and, for England, fairly high summer temperatures.
My first visit in a Cessna 172 was in June 1996 with G-WACL. Ten years later I flew in again with my good friend Gordon Brown, both being members of the Lion Flying Group at ELSTREE, with our Cessna 172 G-BDNU on the way back from a Fly-In at WATCHFORD FARM (DEVON).
Along the way, seeing if anybody was on the frequency for MIDDLE WALLOP, (which we expected to be closed), we found a flex-wing microlight pilot listening in and he was landing at STONEFIELD PARK, so decided this was a good opportunity to follow him in.
In January 1999 I was given the job of collecting the Piper PA-20-135 Pacer G-ATBX from Redditch and delivering it to Cliff Lovell for inspection and assembly. The Hants Light Plane Services business once run by Cliff Lovell was of course a most respected restorer of classic aircraft. Cliff himself had a fabulous example of a Luscombe.
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