Popham Airfield
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Popham Airfield | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Charles Church (Spitfires) Ltd | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Basingstoke, Hampshire | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 550 ft / 168 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°11′40″N 001°14′10″W / 51.19444°N 1.23611°W | ||||||||||||||
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  EGHP Location in Hampshire | |||||||||||||||
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Popham Airfield (ICAO: EGHP) is an unlicensed airfield located 6 NM (11 km; 6.9 mi) south west of Basingstoke in Hampshire, UK. It lies alongside the A303 road.
The airfield has two grass runways, designated 08/26 and 03/21. Light aircraft maintenance facilities, aircraft hire and flight training on microlight and light aircraft is available from AirBourne Aviation Ltd.
Popham Airfield runs many different events over the year, including the Microlight trade fair in May, the annual Motorcycle Mega Meet & Vintage Aircraft Fly-in in August and the New Year's Day Fly-in.
Popham airfield's radio frequency is 129.805 (8.33 kHz spacing) and is air-to-ground only with an additional operations frequency of 131.405 (8.33 kHz spacing) for the resident flight school. Radio operating hours are from 08:30 until 17:00 (winter 16:30 or sunset if earlier).[1]
The airfield is home to AirBourne Aviation,[2] a flight training school that made international media headlines when in August 2014, one of its staff pilots [3] discovered one of the secret filming locations for Star Wars Ep7. at Greenham Common and photographed[4] a half-constructed, full size Millennium Falcon spaceship.
Microlight flight simulation training also takes place at the airfield using a Comco Ikarus C42 flight simulator, owned and operated by AirBourne Aviation Ltd., located within the airfield main building.
On 7 April 2007, Neville Duke, an RAF fighter ace in the Second World War and a well-known test pilot, made an emergency landing here in a light aircraft when he felt unwell. He collapsed after landing and died later that evening.
Footnotes
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 May 2004. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.flymac.co.uk
- ^ http://www.m-myatt.co.uk
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29144135
Further reading
- Pooley's Flight Guide, 2014, p 533-534
External links
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