Wisley Airfield is a former wartime airfield located in the Parish of Ockham near Wisley in Surrey, England. Originally a grass airstrip, used to test aircraft built at Weybridge by Vickers the runway was converted to tarmac in 1952. The airfield continued in use for test aircraft when Vickers aviation activities were subsumed into British Aviation Corporation (BAC). Flying ceased in 1973 because the runway was too short for large aircraft and was too close to Heathrow Airport. All the structures on the site were removed, except for the runway, and the land was sold back to its principal former owner in 1980 for agricultural use.
WisleyAirfield is a former wartime airfield located in the Parish of Ockham near Wisley in Surrey, England. Originally a grass airstrip, used to test...
County History "there is no village of Wisley; merely some scattered farms and cottages". The former WisleyAirfield, a misnomer as it is within the bounds...
RHS Garden Wisley is a garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley, Surrey, south of London. It is one of five gardens run by the society...
OCK (co-located with the OCK VOR), which is situated on the former WisleyAirfield. During typical easterly operations, the proximity of arrival traffic...
needed] was a Nene-powered Vickers VC.1 Viking on 6 April 1948 from WisleyAirfield; the world's first turboprop airliner would fly from there on 16 July...
southwest. It uses the VOR OCK ("Ockham"), which is situated on the former WisleyAirfield. In high-traffic situations, Air Traffic Controllers can opt to utilise...
flown out to nearby WisleyAirfield, which offered a longer runway and less built-up surroundings than Brooklands. That airfield opened as a flight test...
Lithgow died test flying the prototype BAC One-Eleven G-ASHG from Wisleyairfield on 22 October 1963 when during stall tests the aircraft entered a deep...
to east crossing between Floyd Bennett Field in New York City and WisleyAirfield outside London, a record that stood for five years. At the same time...
Gatwick. This is the same type of heath as in Esher, Oxshott, Weybridge, Wisley, all around Woking, Brookwood, Deepcut, Pirbright, Frimley, Lightwater,...
prototype of the turboprop civil transport Vickers Viscount was flown from WisleyAirfield by Summers and Jock Bryce for 10 minutes on 16 July 1948. The very...
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