Freeman was just having a little internet publishing fun when he launched Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields, and the site is now celebrating 20 years of life in 2019. Lets take an alternative history tour. - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00. consider checking the box to make a monthly donatation. Im going on a road trip to find out. I still remember Hunsdon when it had a runway. For instance, the date that the airport was established was determined by readers scouring old sectional charts, noting that the airfield was not depicted on the April 1945 Portland Sectional Chart but was listed in the 1947 Oregon Airport Directory. - 17th January 2018 at 18:00 Permalink He has never met a flying machine that he didnt like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. to Safe Driving on the 350 +/- acres of rolling pasture grass fields. Just keep outside of the fenced off areas! It has a control tower and a very wide runway, two things not commonly found at small private airstrips. Wilks Ranch Brokers of Texas is representing the seller of the 6,200-acre property that includes a somewhat peculiar airfield at its apex, one that is complete with an air traffic control tower and two relatively large hangars. - 17th January 2018 at 13:07 Permalink Many of his 667 hours has been flying a Diamond DA20 from Leesburg, Virginia (KJYO). Always carry a radio tuned to the airport's Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF) or UNICOM. Do a search near you, and prepare to sit back and enjoy a clear and a million flight straight down Memory Lane. This abandoned airfield is such a rewarding find for so little effort. You can drive into blackbushe by the car auctions, drive up and the guy just lifts the barrier, drive to the end of the road (past the carparks for the market) to the end and follow signs. Freeman is an aerospace engineer working as a program manager on ADS-B for L3Harris Corporation and has been a private pilot since 1993. financial contributions over the past 20 years. items which can be used to expand the website's coverage: old Even just on this route, there were ones we missed out. "It took us four hours to cover 20km," he recalled. The site is reader-driven and is very analytical in its approach.
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