Thruxton Aerodrome secures new owner
According to Grant Francis from aircraft maintenance business Aerofurb Restorations, their home airport, Thruxton Aerodrome, has been sold to a private individual. Rumours of the sale of the Hampshire aerodrome and race circuit have been ongoing for some months, following the news that owners Western Air were looking to divest. Suggestions of the place being demolished and turned into an Amazon distribution hub, housing estate or...
PFT opens new training facility at Thruxton
London Oxford Airport headquartered Pilot Flight Training (PFT) has opened a new training facility at Thruxton Airport in Hampshire. The new facility marks the school’s first move to the southwest, which has been operating out of Oxford Airport for more than 25 years, and is the initial stage in the company’s strategic growth plans to provide enhanced flight training services to aspiring pilots and aviators in the southwest region....
UK airfield round-up
In a general round up of airport news from around the UK, FTN takes a look at some of those airfields currently under threat and some which are living the high life. With apologies to those airfields that have been inadvertently left out from this report, here’s the current UK airfield scene as FTN perceives it. First on the threat list is Old Sarum airfield in Wiltshire, which has been very quiet for the last few years after the...