Sandown update

Please see the Isle of Wight, Sandown, website eghn.org.uk for regular updates including the airfield status, the report on the official opening of Carla’s Café and the current news regarding the provision of fuel. And not forgetting the newly installed webcam.

Carla has now introduced a new full menu and all are welcome to sample the fine food available.

See you there!!

Please see www.eghn.org.uk for details of the opening of CJ’s (Carla’s) Café on Saturday 19 October ’13. It will be day to remember!

ADVANCE NEWS:

As you will know from your recent visit to Sandown (you haven’t, why) Carla and the famous range of Bacon Baps are now located in the permanent building alongside the Tower. And, on SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER at 1100 hrs, this new abode will be officially opened by a very special guest.

As soon as more information is available it will be posted. Meanwhile please keep an eye on the airport website at www.eghn.org.uk

See you there. No excuses, and don’t be late.

The web site looks pretty good so far.

Good news – Sandown now has an updated website at:

www.eghn.org.uk

This is now the official website for Sandown Isle of Wight Airport.

Please visit both the website and the airfield, which is there for you to enjoy, as soon as possible. You will be surprised the changes that have been made since Jonathan Owen and Tony Fowler bought the field in May this year.

For any who don’t yet know, Carla’s trailer cafe is no more and she is now in a very smart, newly fitted out and decorated cafeteria, adjoining the tower. The loo’s are what you would expect and the ensemble is complete with external tables, chairs and umbrellas providing shelter from the island sun as you circumnavigate your tongue and teeth around a couple of Carla’s bacon baps

Ah, Deffo missed you then as Me and Daughter were down in Shanklin having Lunch and an Ice Cream.:cool:

Arrived 1215z, departed 1350z

Moggy

Hi Moggy

Were you there for long> Cant say I saw your aircraft !! 😮 I will be back there soon.

As for Runway 14, surely its runway 32 as 14 is coming out not going in !!! ???

It’s good that Sandown has a much more assured future. Long may it continue.;

PLEASE:

For the sanity of the poor person who has been allocated the telephone number previously used by Sandown Airport (ending …125), please note that the correct number is:

+44 (0) 1983 716 926

This number has only been introduced in the past few months, so please check anything that may have the wrong number

Thanks

If 14 isn’t a leg pull by Fieldhawk, I guess that it must relate to the hard taxiway leading at a right angle from the western end of 23/05 thru’ the gap in the hedge and running down in front of the hangars on the right. That’ll be exciting! Must be all of five feet long.

Oooops, the cat (moggy) is out of the bag. Spy plane seen over Sandown at dawn – was it looking for 14?

The exact details of 14 can only be disclosed whilst holding a fresh bacon bap in the right hand and your flight manual in the left. So, sorry, but it does require another visit to EGHN.

😉

It would be at least another 9 months before I could bring any little Moggies and would probably require some cooperation from Mrs Moggy that would be hard to negotiate. She dislikes the idea of children as much as I do.

But tell / show us more about runway 14?

Moggy

Moggy C, Flytst – you must come again. And bring all the little Moggies and Flytsts with you. Things are changing fast at Sandown so regular visits are essential :eagerness: It gets better by the day.

Have you tried runway 14 yet?

See you soon

My RV-4, White and blue G-NADZ

And yes, I saw your aircraft (though wasn’t quite sure what it was – blush)

What a pity we hadn’t known.

Moggy

I was there too on 7th What were you in Moggy.

I was in the Dark Red and Cream Escapade G-POZA

Regards
Mark

And jolly nice it was.

Moggy

Have it planned for today.

Some iffy met over the Channel, but looks doable.

Moggy

An update.

Sandown continues to flourish. The new owners are making visible and practical improvements not the least of which is the new cafeteria on the ground floor adjacent to the tower. This will be a spacious and comfortable room with, at a guess, seating for around thirty to forty visitors. There are doors leading to a spectator enclosure overlooking the western end of the airfield and giving an excellent panoramic view of the activities on the field and runway.

Carla’s Eating Emporium in the meantime continues to provide brisk service, yards of bacon done to taste, and tea, coffee and soft drinks to ease the passage of said bacon !

Please pitch up and support Carla’s herculean efforts to re-create the Sandown that we all loved to visit.