White Lane Farm
Note: This map only gives a rough location within the UK.
WHITELANE FARM. Private airstrip (Aka TONGHAM)
Location: Just S of Ash Green village, the strip being parallel to White Lane.
Period of operation: 1970s only?
Runway: N/S
Note: Probably a 'one way in, and other way out' strip.
NOTES: Terry Clark has told me that he thinks that the airstrip at TONGHAM was probably referred to as RUNFOLD (in the 1970s?) to differentiate it from this location.
He mentions that a friend, travelling past in 1976, found a Twin Commanche with its nose protruding from a hedge. For some reason I have noticed that pilots of Piper twins, (despite often being highly experienced and qualified), seem particularly inept at landing, (and/or taking off) from marginal grass airstrips. Can anybody explain why this should be?
Terry tells me that when flying over in 1978 he saw a Stearman. Perhaps the same Stearman now based at TONGHAM?
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