Rednal Airfield

by Oswestry, Shropshire.

Reference for pilots, aircraft owners, users of airspace & interested parties.

Airfield Name: REDNAL

The Airfield is closed to all fixed-wing aviation.

ICAO Ident: None

ARP: N52° 50.6'  W002° 56.09'

alternative ARP representations: 

(Airfield Reference Point is Mid-Point of erstwhile Main Runway 04/22).

Elevation: 285ft (-10hPa).

Traffic Type: Rotor craft + Model Aircraft, Drones, UAVs, rockets, helium weather balloons & inflatable dirigible testing.

Owner Type: Private, club + RAF (Helicopter Training).

PPR: Strictly PPR, subject to sufficient notice and assessment of ability, by at least a week's prior arrangement by eg: email airfield \at\ rednal.net , or post.

Rednal Airfield is closed to fixed-wing aircraft. 

If you have a general enquiry, or a commercial proposition, or some interesting information about the airfield and its locality, please feel free to get in touch.

Address: Rednal, West Felton, OSWESTRY SY11 4HF

Tel:  +44(0) l69l6lzero3zero3

Email: airfield \at\ rednal.net

Web:  Rednal Airfield official site 
Domain: rednalaerodrome.com

Droners: rednalaerodrome.com/DronePage get in touch @ https://greyarro.ws/u/droner61

Runway Info: Multiple runways exist but are unusable for fixed-wing craft.

Identifier: None \varnothing

Dimensions: 600 x 40 mts - no overrun at either end. Obstacles include fences, forest and a main road.

Surface: 'Tarmac' with loose surface stones, pitted, patchy, eroded with abundant weed growth.

This airfield poses major challenges, obstacles and dangers to fixed-wing piloted aircraft.

The AFE 'map' (among others) still circulating on sites such as pilotfriend.com(sic.) is a dangerous fiction, showing non-existent windsock and understating National Grid pylon heights by > 50%.

Displaced Thr. 100mts on both 04 and 22.

Radio: Not always monitored – make blind calls.

Type: VHF

Callsign: Rednal Traffic.

Frequency: 135·480 MHz (Safetycom)

Fuel: None available.

AVGAS: No, nada

JET A1: No, zilch

MOGAS: No, Ø

UL 91: No, {}


No windsock.

No fire extinguisher.

No first aid.   ∅

No fire hydrant.   ∅

No telephone.  \emptyset


400kV pylon heights: 54 mts to East, North-East and North - 16 such pylons of 140ft to 180ft agl within 2km of Rednal Airfield. 

11kV overhead 25foot agl buried under runway 15metres distant.

South end (22) parallel, then incident upon adjacent public highway, steel and concrete fencing - no overrun possible.

Farm traffic crossing 04 (northern) end

Noise Abatement Areas: Please see map with areas highlighted.

Industrial area + houses to West of Runway 04/22

See this video for illustration of Rednal Airfield pylons looking East and South.

No flying down runway, No touch&go's - military helicopters may be present at low level, as well as UAV(S)/RPA(S)/(s)UAS/MAV/RCA.

Dear fixed-wing pilot(s),
Rednal Airfield is closed to fixed-wing aircraft. There are no longer any usable runways. Please don't ask and above all please don't try. Thank you.


Rednal is in the Shawbury (EGOS) Low Flying Area (LFA) 9 - more information and many acronyms available at:

OS-map extract with runway marked

04&22 at wrong ends

Smaller-scale with highways and (some) high-voltage lines. Brown areas are access for farm and commercial vehicles.

Out-of-date air-nav chart showing nearby airfields and Shawbury's CMATZ.

Indicative map of places where it is preferable not to unnecessarily overfly so as not to disturb grazing animals, farm animals, people and businesses.

 

This airfield poses considerable challenges, obstacles and objective dangers to fixed wing pilots - please stay away.

People live, walk, ride, reside and work on, around and near Rednal Airfield, so it is not considerate to use its airspace for aerobatics, dives, loops, stalls, repetitive circular manoeuvres and low flying. If you insist on doing so you may also prang a pylon or clip a National Grid cable. Those of you who think you are in a 'Battle of Britain' or 'Apocalypse Now' remake, flying around for no apparent reason other than making noise and burning fuel while getting yourselves all moist about bravery, airmanship, Roger, foxtrot, Freda knots, combat, duty, etc. don't come crying when you bump into a RC UAV. 

And RAF Shawbury, stop using people's homes/farms as waypoints in your flight exercises, and stop flying low over people's houses, buzzing tractor/digger drivers with repeated low passes. There can be no operational or training justification for this kind of joyride-style piloting, and by the Armed Forces! You aren't allowed to, but you regularly do. Is this representative of current military professionalism and adherence to standards? Your duty officers reliably inform us this does not happen while the call is rendered inaudible by yet another low pass. Such leadership! Does defence of the realm involve breaking air-law at the taxpayer's expense?