Rednal Airfield

Airfield Name: REDNAL

The Airfield is closed to all the following:

fixed-wing aviation 

• including 'microlights', gliders, hang-gliders, etc

self-propelled flying

• including paramotors, wingsuits, parascenders, paragliders, etc.

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To be clear:

any access, or use of the runways, taxiways, hardstanding, grassed areas, airspace to 100m agl or buildings within the curtilage of the airfield by persons whether in flying machines or not, constitutes trespass unless they are tenants, stakeholders or have authority from the owners.

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ICAO ident: None

ARP: N52° 50.6'  W002° 56.09'

alternative ARP representations: 

• 52.8427,-2.9349

• N52° 50.561'  W002° 56.093'

• N52:50:34  W2:56:06

• N52° 50' 33.7"   W2° 56' 5.6"

  • • • • N52.8427°  W2.9349°

• https://goo.gl/maps/FX2434U2xhusfrh8A

• OSxy      X:337127 Y:327652

• OS12      337127327652  

• OSNG   SJ3712727652

(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 - but none for fixed wing piloted..

Rednal Airfield is closed. 

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

Runway Info: 3 ex-runways exist but are unusable for fixed-wing craft.

Identifier: None

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.

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%.

No windsock.

No fire extinguisher.

No first aid.   

No fire hydrant.  

No telephone. 

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 04/22 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

Timber being stored at north end of 04/22

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.

Rednal is in the Shawbury (EGOS) Low Flying Area (LFA) 9 - more info available at:

• Shawbury flying info 

• Shawbury base info 

• Shawbury RAF station