Sun Jul 28, 2019 2:20 pm
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Is it actually for sale? Any one got a price?
The quickest way to fall out with people is, discuss politics.
Neither the lease nor the sale terms carry an obligation for the maintenance of an airfield for civilian and military use, although my Department retains in the lease and sale documents the right to land military helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft on no more than 150 occasions per year, and has been exercising that right. Any change of use by the purchaser of the property would be subject to the usual planning laws in the ordinary way.The retention by MoD of the right to make landings there does not IMHO make it a military or to use the correct term "Government" aerodrome.
211. With the concurrence of the Secretary of State and subject to such conditions it deems appropriate, the CAA may notify any Government aerodrome as an aerodrome available for the take-off and landing of aircraft flying on flights for the purpose of—
(a)the commercial air transport of passengers;
(b)the public transport of passengers; or
(c)instruction in flying,
or of any classes of such aircraft.
tomshep wrote:I no longer care how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The airfield and its users have been shafted by a bunch of greedy crooks and aviation is the poorer for it.
I have hung up my headset today. Time to move onward.
Which to me means it ain't available unless it's been notified as such.