Just concluded another trip to the UK.
While driving to Heathrow on the northern bit of the M25, I saw a large GA field a couple of miles east of the A11 junction.
What is it?
A 2-3 east of that there was a farm strip marked with an orange windsock and one hangar. Inside I could just see the shape of an aircraft…from a great distance it s tail looked like the fin and stabilizer of an early unswept Cessna 310 (though it realize it’s probably not).
Anyone know whats kept there?
By: mike currill - 2nd April 2009 at 21:40
A busy place indeed for such a small airfield, but seems to be a thriving establishment.
By: wannabe pilot - 2nd April 2009 at 02:39
You’d be surprised by how active Stapleford is. There are, I think, at least two flying schools on the airfield. May even be three.
Stapleford is indeed busy, there are around 40 aircraft on the ground here. There is only one flying school though, who do the full PPL, CPL, ME/IR etc training using a range of C152, PA28, PA34 and Diamond Twinstar. There are then about 20 private based aircraft, along with my company’s (LEA) two Kingairs.
By: mike currill - 1st April 2009 at 21:22
You’d be surprised by how active Stapleford is. There are, I think, at least two flying schools on the airfield. May even be three.
By: Skymonster - 1st April 2009 at 14:40
I was rather surprised to see to fields that close to London. Stapleford must of had 30+ ac parked there.
There are a number of busy GA airfields inside the M25 actually… Stapleford, Elstree, Denham and Biggin Hill come to mind immediately (plus of course the more commercial London City and London Heathrow!)
Andy
By: J Boyle - 31st March 2009 at 23:32
We were traveling anti-clockwise on the M25 enroute from East Anglia we joined the M25 from the A12.
The farm strip’s end was no more than a few hundred meters from the M25 so Dodrum’s Map showing Jenkin’s Farm was most certainly the small strip I saw. And the larger one was probably Stapleford.
Sorry my geography isn’t that great for that part of the UK.
I was rather surprised to see to fields that close to London. Stapleford must of had 30+ ac parked there.
By: Moggy C - 31st March 2009 at 18:00
I can offer West Horndon or Thurrock to the East of Stapleford, but both probably a lot more than two or three miles.
Moggy
By: dodrums - 31st March 2009 at 15:52
could it be this? which appears to be south of Upminster
nope, that is Damyn’s hall.
I have had a look at the chart and there is Jenkins Farm about 2ml east of Stapleford. I htink this is it on Google
Ken
By: mike currill - 31st March 2009 at 15:45
The airfield near the A11 is probbably Stapleford which was, as far as I can remember, a satellite airfield for North Weald during the war. Which the private airstrip was I don’t know, which way round the M25 were you going? as that may be of help to the pilots on here in idientifying it.
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