Bourne Park Airfield

The primary reason for closure was the landowner's decision not to renew the lease for the flying club operating on the site. This is a common reason for the closure of small, private airfields, often driven by a desire to return the land to full agricultural use or for potential future development, rather than a specific accident or military conversion.

The site has reverted entirely to agricultural use. Satellite imagery shows the land is now used for farming, with the former runways and taxiways no longer maintained and largely returned to pasture or cropland. Faint outlines of the former runways may still be visible from the air under certain conditions, but all aviation infrastructure, such as hangars and windsock, has been removed. The site is on private land with no public access.

Bourne Park was a private, grass-strip airfield significant to the local general aviation and microlight community. It was not a major military or commercial airport. Its primary role was as the home of the Wessex Microlight Club, serving as a base for recreational flying, flight training, and social events for club members. It operated with two grass runways (headings approximately 06/24 and 16/34) and provided a valuable, friendly facility for light aircraft enthusiasts in the Hampshire area for many years before its closure.

There are no known plans or credible prospects for reopening Bourne Park Airfield. The land is in private ownership and has been fully integrated back into agricultural use for over a decade. The Wessex Microlight Club, its former primary user, has long since relocated its operations to other airfields. The economic and logistical hurdles to re-establish an airfield on the site are considered prohibitive.