Wheatley Hill
WHEATLEY HILL: Microlight airstrip (Aka GREENHILLS FARM)
Note: These four pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: East Durham Microlights (See their web-site)
Location: Greenhills Farm, near and E of Wheatley Hill village. S of the B1279 and W of the B1280
Period of operation: 2010? to -
Runway: 09/27 275 grass
2015: 09/27 345 grass
2018: 09/27 540 grass
NOTES: A few years ago I made this comment - "The very limited information regarding this airstrip, which is possibly only used by microlights was obtained from the AAIB report EW/G2014/08/01." Can anybody provide additional information? See below.
Without any doubt, in more recent years, probably mostly since the 1980s, the scene in which so many people decided to go flying with an engine, has changed quite dramatically with the emergence of so many microlight types. So much more affordable than petrol guzzling G.A. types which were normally the only option previously available.
A list published in August 2018, shows the range of types that could be seen here:
G-BZED Pegasus Quantam 15-912
G-CBOP Jabiru UL-450
G-CCNG Flight Design CT2K
G-CCOW, G-CCWV Pegasus Quik
G-CIZF Ozone Indy/Paramotor Flyer Trike 'Magic Cyclone'
G-CFPR P & M Aviation Quikr
G-CFVF Kiss 400-582
G-MYHM Cyclone AX3/503
This list seems to span pretty much all the major airframe configurations used by the microlight fraternity.
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