Longest runway in the U.K. for sale.

But Heathrow aren’t flogging off any of their runways.

Therefore, as per the OP, Macrihanish is indeed the longest runway for sale in the UK. 😀

Yes that is true Grey Area, mind you if things go badly for BAA, Heathrows runways might well be flogged off although I was reading yesterday that Ferrovial will fight tooth and nail to keep it. On the subject of airports for sale, I always thought that shares in Manchester would have been a good buy and back in the mid nineties there was some talk of the airport going public so I wrote a letter to the finance people at – was it Manchester Corporation?? (Can’t remember) enquiring about buying shares and got a blunt letter back saying that they had absolutley no intention of selling the airport or making shares available which was a pity. I have followed the fortunes of Manchester since the mid sixties and it strikes me as being an airport which has always been managed and run by people who are keen to see it succeed.

If it was the longest runway for sale in the UK then Heathrow would be flogging off one of its runways (12,800)…….

But Heathrow aren’t flogging off any of their runways.

Therefore, as per the OP, Macrihanish is indeed the longest runway for sale in the UK. 😀

I could never quite understand why Macrihanish was closed; it always struck me as being the ideal location for a tri-service training base!

Cheers

WF

Well it’s not the easiest place to reach by road. At the time I was there I think the nearest traffic lights were in Ireland. Plus the weather was always a problem, I remember an awful lot of visits being cancelled due to it.
As we used to say “if you look out of window early in the morning and you can see the mountains, it’s going to rain. If you can’t see them, it’s raining.”
Btw, I was always under the impression that it was in the top ten longest runways in the UK, not specifically the longest.

I could never quite understand why Macrihanish was closed; it always struck me as being the ideal location for a tri-service training base!

Cheers

WF

I don’t think Newforest wanted this thread to drift onto this topic

Correct! And if you don’t know where the airfield (I didn’t:o), here it is.

http://www.british-towns.net/sc/level_4_display_map.asp?GetL3=17861

i though fairford, brize and lyneham had fairly large runways too?

I don’t think Newforest wanted this thread to drift onto this topic but for the record the operational lengths of them are Fairford 10,000ft, Brize 10,007!, Lyneham 7,828ft. Fairford has 1,000ft over-runs at each end giving it 12,000 overall but as I say the operational length is 10,000ft. At least Macrihanish will continue as an airfield. There is talk of RAF Odiham being sold off for development and Lyneham is set to close isn’t it?

i though fairford, brize and lyneham had fairly large runways too?

If it was the longest runway for sale in the UK then Heathrow would be flogging off one of its runways (12,800). Macrihanish has a long runway at 10,000ft but its not even the longest miltary runway in the UK either (Boscombe Down is at 10,500ft). As for the longest runway in Europe, I don’t know where they get this cobblers. All the runways at Frankfurt are 13,000ft or over, both Madrid Airport and Torrejon Air base have runways over 14,000ft and there are many more elsewhere in Europe. It just seems to be the nonsense that the media seem to spout about aviation in general, they rarely get the facts or stories right.

Church fenton…I hope
No body would notice.