Abbotts Hill Farm Airstrip

There is no official stated reason for the closure. However, for a private farm strip of this nature, the most common reasons are the owner ceasing flying activities due to age or health, selling the associated aircraft, or a change in land ownership/use. There is no evidence to suggest closure was due to a specific accident, regulatory action, or economic failure in a commercial sense.

The site of the former airstrip has been fully returned to agricultural use. Current satellite imagery shows the area as an open field, indistinguishable from the surrounding farmland. There are no remaining signs of a runway, taxiways, or aviation-related infrastructure like hangars or windsocks on the site. The land is part of the larger Abbotts Hill Farm property.

Abbotts Hill Farm Airstrip was a private, unlicensed grass runway. Its significance was purely local, serving the personal and recreational flying needs of its owner, likely the proprietor of Abbotts Hill Farm. Operations would have been limited to VFR (Visual Flight Rules) flights by light, single-engine general aviation aircraft such as Piper or Cessna models. It was not a commercial airport, had no scheduled services, and was not used for military purposes. Its ICAO designator, GB-0935, is typical for unofficial or private landing sites in the UK that are known within the aviation community but not officially licensed by the CAA.

There are no known plans, proposals, or prospects for reopening the Abbotts Hill Farm Airstrip. Given that the site has been inactive for over a decade and has been fully integrated back into agricultural land, the likelihood of it being reinstated as an airfield is considered extremely low to non-existent.