Burdon Head Farm Airstrip

The closure was not due to a specific incident, military conversion, or major economic event. As a private farm strip, the most likely reason for its closure was a private decision by the landowner to cease aviation activities. The land was subsequently reverted entirely to agricultural use, a common fate for small, privately-owned airfields.

The site of the former Burdon Head Farm Airstrip has been fully returned to agricultural land. There are no longer any visible traces of the runway, taxiways, or any aviation-related buildings. The area is now an ordinary field, used for grazing or growing hay, and is part of the larger Burdon Head Farm complex located near Weeton, North Yorkshire.

The airstrip had local, rather than national, significance. It was a typical unlicensed British farm strip used for general aviation. Its operations would have consisted of recreational flights by light, single-engine aircraft (e.g., Cessna, Piper) and possibly microlights, operated by the landowner and associates. The ICAO designator 'GB-0874' was a national identifier used in UK flight planning systems and unofficial guides like Pooleys to mark its location, not an official code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization. It served as a convenient base for local private pilots.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airstrip. Given that the land has been fully reintegrated into agricultural use for over a decade, reopening is considered extremely unlikely. It would require a significant private investment and a renewed desire from the landowner to re-establish aviation activities on the site.