Westmere Farm
WESTMERE FARM: Private airstrip
Note: The first two pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©. The area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
Operated by: Mr Lindsey Walton
Location: Just NW of Sutton Bridge village, 10 nm W to WNW of King's Lynn town centre
Period of operation: 1968 (?) to late 1999s
Runway: 18/36 860 grass
NOTES: The 1999 picture seems to show a still usuable strip? Also, it is a regular feature of airstrips with a hangar that a hard-standing area is provided - as in this case.
In June 2022, Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', contacted me to advise that the NORD N.1002 Pingouin G-ATBG was based here. This was registered to Mr Lindsey Walton from 09.09.68 to 28.07.99. But, was it based here throughout that period?
Painted in WW2 Luftwaffe colours as NJ+C11, this aircraft often performed in mock 'combat' displays at a wide variety of air shows, posing as a Messerschmitt Bf109. This was quite convincing from a distance as the NORD N.1002 was a re-engined Messerschmitt Bf108 Taifun produced in France by S.N.C.A.N. after WW.2.
I quick browse on the inter-web reveals that Lindsey Walton, (often mis-spelt as Lindsay), also owned a Vought F4U-7 Corsair (N1337A), a Boeing E75 Stearman (G-THEA ex N1733B from 18.03.81 to 31.09.99), and a Morane-Saulnier MS.733 (G-SHOW from 01.10.80 to 04.12.84) . Were they also based here at one time or another?
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