Henstridge airfield ( EGHS ) is right on the Somerset - Dorset border, to the West of Shaftesbury.
The airfield benefits from a hard runway a legacy from it days as a World War 2 airfield ( Fleet Air Arm use as HMS Dipper ) - despite the recent winter wet weather it remained open for flying.
G-KHRE SOCATA Rallye 150SV Garnement c/n 2931 landing on the hard runway ( 07 / 25 ) - this colourful Rallye is painted in a very bright colour scheme of Breitling watches. The aircraft was built in France in 1979 flying as F-GAYR before being imported into the UK in 1982 as G-KHRE.It is now based at Henstridge and had flown approx 2,130 hours by December 2008.
G-IRAF RAF 2000 GTX-SE gyroplane painted in a most unusual "giraffe" ( hence G-IRAF ) type colour scheme. This gyroplane is based at Henstridge and is seen here taking off for some very local flying training along the length of the runway. This aircraft was built in 1996 and had flown approx 360 hours by December 2008.This two seat design is powered by a Subaru EJ22 130HP engine that drives the propellor blade behind the cockpit. This example was kit built with parts supplied by Rotary Air Force Inc of Canada. Production switched to South Africa in 2007.
G-CFDI Vans RV-6 c/n 23116. This aircraft is unusal as it was imported in from the USA as N76GC rather than being kit built here in the UK. There are almost 100 RV-6 aircraft in the UK today of which approx one dozen have been imported as complete aircraft from the US. The type first flew in 1985 and over 2,000 examples were built ( many being the RV-6A version with a nose wheel ).
N76GC was originally built in 1999 and based in Florida, USA - it was imported into the UK in 2008 becoming G-CFDI
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