Whilst there a Cherokee appeared and landed. A check shows it belongs to a chap in Bride. I looked up past owners and is started its IOM existance with Ashley Garner.
Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote:
Andreas was essentially derelict from the 1960's onwards. It was not used as an airfield for a long time despite Lionel trying to attract customers. Some of us had permission to fly in during the 1970's but I only tried it once - the surface was terrible. It wasn't just grass growing through the concrete,it had wheel size holes in the surface and FOD lying all over the place.It was only the gliding/microlight activity that kicked it into action and they had to tidy up the surface runway themselves. The hangars are indeed cheapo affairs and the clubhouse an old Portakabin. My photos of that period show Andreas in a very bad state and more farmland than airfield. It seems not to have changed much but I doubt anyone is going to fork out for bringing it up to even reasonable condition. Manx Flyers had a ban on the place after they had to replace two props badly dented by the loose surface. bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 18 October 2009 09:25 To: JHB Restricted Subject: [jhb] AndreasI mentioned earlier, I think, that I couldn't get access to Andreas, so that Tony Meredith might do a more accurate version. Well, yesterday I got in. The announcement, last week, that there was to be a landing at Jurby was wrong. It was in fact the arrival at Andreas of a locally funded Kodiak; a present to a Missionary Organisation.Having got in, ostensibly as being interested in the mission, I was quite shocked at how different it is from the GE based version that I did, a couple of years ago, and the more recent Tony Meredith version.The shock started with the hangars, which are just a couple of small plastic sheet over hoops type. Rather like an overgrown Nissen hut.Next was how little of the rest of the field can be seen, from the hangar area. Most of the total area is covered in cereal crops, with scrub thrown in, to limit sightlines.The old disused runway section used as the visitors' apron is tiny and has scrub on one side and what look like a collection of scrap vehicles on the other. One of these is the fuel bowser!The derelict WWII Control Tower isn't, now, even in the same fields.It was only thinking about it after arriving home that I realised it was my expectation that was wrong. If thought of as a farm strip whose runways just happen to be clapped out tarmac, then that gives a better appreciation of the place.Unfortunately, most design problems don't do dereliction! Gerry Winskill
