So I’m having a bumble about the NATS app on iPad looking at all the airfields around ROI & NI (you have some crackers up there!) and I come across this….on the road. From Newry.
Eh…….that can’t be right, can it?
If it is right, can any Newry head shine a light on this? A bit tight for putting planes onto, no?
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Your ma has a private airstrip that only I’m allowed to enter
It exists, i’ve seen light aircraft take off from it when heading along the carriageway.
The FIL flies microlights and there are a number of small airstrips in and around South Down and Armagh, from looking at the Map at Kernan Aviation I was shocked at many airstrips there are in NI.
There’s hundreds literally all over the place. Many people have their own planes and operate them from their own airstrips in their gardens. Quick Google search for the figure puts it at 1200 across the UK. I couldn’t find a figure for Ireland or the island of Ireland but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a comparable figure of a 1-3 around any town the size of Newry.
Postie in the area… will do some asking tomorrow at work… funny was walking along the greenway across the water from this at 6 this morning!
Small plane and a discreet runway , smugglers paradise
That’s where slab flies in the drugs
If you look on google maps in the street view you’ll clearly see this is not an airport or even a air-strip.
Having worked in the area for 10+ years for NIAS I can honestly say I’ve never seen a plane landing there, never heard of a plane landing there.
There is no access onto the carriageway, and generally you’ll find horses etc wandering in this area
Even more interestingly, there’s one in Buckna!
[Slemish Airstrip](https://maps.app.goo.gl/V325io4JAfG1Ky4t8?g_st=ic)
Found a good website for it:
[Map of airports in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom @ OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/countries/GB/NIR/)
Had no idea there was this many.
It may have been an airstrip at one point, but definitely not now… there were horses grazing there a few weeks ago
Aye can confirm my friend and I saw a plane going onto it as teenagers after football training! Thought it was crash landing on the carriageway at first, as didn’t realise it was an airstrip until then!
Has to be where all the south Armagh drug dealers are bringing their gear in…
There are a good few of these about the area, one outside Rathfriland and one over in Leitrim. They’re not much more than well mowed fields with markings to assist light aircraft’s to land.
There are a surprising amount of private airports/airstrips about NI,
newry head is an offensive term, we’re scumbags
There’s more than one round there, the better half is from kilkeel direction and knows a boyo lost an arm in a plane rotor, still flies, the absolute rocket. There are a couple of WW2 airstrips still functioning for small, private planes. Pillboxes and all sorts of shit about the place too.
It’s literally a field along the side of the dual carriageway just down from FS Wheels at the end of Greenbank. If you look at the satellite view on Google maps, you can see the greener grass in the field which forms the airstrip.
It’s been a long time, but I’ve definitely seen the orange wind sock up beside the gate and a plane coming into land at it.
My boss used to work for Gallagher’s (now Wright bus) up in Ballymena hey. He said they used to have an airstrip at the back of the factory so they could fly the fegs down south as the lorries kept getting hijacked close to the border
This was an airstrip but the local pilots just stopped caring and taking responsibility and maintaining it.
So it’s overgrown now.
There’s about 3 airstrips within 2 mile of it
That be a landing strip there bai!
Yup. Warrenpoint road. You can see the little windsock when driving the road.
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