18 February 2006
Old Buckenham airfield in Norfolk is up for sale with a 1.5m price tag. Since 1993 it has been owned by a personal pension fund and run by the Touchdown Aero Centre which has got a lease until 2015. Suffolk Life has instructed Savills in Cambridge to sell the property. Touchdown Aero Centre managing director Paul Layzell said the sale would not affect operations at the airfield.
Built during WW2 and completed in 1943 it covers around 123 acres. It was home to the US 453rd Bomber Group and film star James Stewart who took over command in 1944. Old Buck has a 800m hard runway, two grass runways, a clubhouse and five hangars. Savills describes it as ‘one of the best-equipped privately owned airfields in East Anglia’.
