Moat Hall Airfield

Cessation of private use. Moat Hall was a private farm strip, and such airfields typically close when the owner stops flying, sells the associated property, or decides to return the land to full-time agricultural use. There is no evidence of closure due to accidents, regulatory action, or economic failure in a commercial sense.

The site has been returned to agricultural use. Current satellite imagery shows the land where the runway was located is now indistinguishable from the surrounding fields, used for pasture or cultivation. While the faint outline of the former runway may be slightly visible from the air due to soil compaction, it is no longer maintained or usable as an airfield. The land remains part of Moat Hall Farm.

Moat Hall Airfield was a private, unlicensed grass airstrip primarily used for General Aviation (GA). Its significance was local, serving its owner for recreational flying and potentially welcoming visiting pilots who had secured Prior Permission Required (PPR). It was not a military or commercial airport. The ICAO code 'GB-1319' is an unofficial designator, commonly used in flight simulator software and unofficial aviation databases to identify small airfields that lack an official ICAO code. Operations would have been limited to light single-engine aircraft suitable for short grass runways.

There are no known plans or public proposals to reopen Moat Hall Airfield. The prospect of it reopening is considered extremely low, as it would require a new landowner with a specific interest in aviation to invest in re-establishing the runway and obtaining the necessary permissions.