The Latest News from Compton Abbas Airfield, Dorset

We are opening from July 4th

We are very happy to announce that we are reopening from the 4th July! Thanks to everyone for your patience whilst we have introduced a phased re-opening. We are really ...

Recruiting – Flying Instructors

Compton is looking for a full time flying instructor (or job share) to start as soon as the Government restrictions have been lifted. This would be to operate on the ...

Compton open for limited flying from 20th May

After nearly two months of downtime, the Department of Transport has recently declared that limited flying can take place. As a result we are enabling our resident aircraft to fly ...

Update on airfield activity

On the 17th April the Civil Aviation Authority published a document which authorised some flights for maintenance purposes. There are several strict measures applied which we as an airfield will ...

We are still here…

We might be closed, but we are still busy making plans for when we can re-open. All our team have been furloughed but the directors are making the most of ...

Airfield and Airfield Cafe closed from 5pm Saturday 21st March

We have made the difficult decision to close the entire airfield from 5pm on the 21st March. This has come about after a lot of deliberating, but ultimately we feel ...

Cafe closed from 20th March

Following on from the Government’s directive published today, Friday 20th March, we have closed the cafe side of the airfield business. We are currently unable to offer take away services, ...

Corona Virus Update 19th March

Compton Abbas Airfield CORONA VIRUS STATEMENT 19th March 2020 At Compton we have issued some guidelines for our staff members and those visiting us, these have been amended daily as ...

Compton’s Club Go Karting Evening

On a wild and windy Thursday night in between February storms Dennis and Jorge, some brave and brilliant Compton Club members and staff gathered at Wessex Raceway, our local indoor ...

Compton’s 2020 Charity

This year we will be supporting The Dorset Children’s Foundation. At our fly ins we will be raising money for them, as well as on our members events and a ...

Compton’s Club Quiz Night

On a dark, damp night towards the end of January, 40 plus members of the club enjoyed a night of fun, facts and friendly rivalry as 7 teams battled it ...

DH Heritage Aircraft get their annual make over

Our DH Heritage fleet are currently undergoing their annual maintenance with the fantastic Edwards Brothers Engineering Team and the brilliant Charlie Huke who is also one of the airfields flying ...

Irv Lee Pilot Masterclasses at Compton

We are welcoming back Irv Lee to run his ever popular PPL Masterclasses. Irv covers a variety of topics “post PPL” and his classes are a fantastic way to brush ...

1st Vintage Fly In of 2020

The 4th January saw a break in the non-flying weather at last and Compton was happy to welcome vintage and modern aircraft alike and a record number of residents’ planes ...

Christmas Fly In

We had a brilliant day on the 7th December on our annual Christmas Fly In. What a treat to have the weather gods smile on us, and have sunshine all ...

Gifts & Experiences: We have a lovely selection of gifts for Christmas presents from local award-winning Honeycomb, to stocking fillers of Balsa wood Gliders, Bertie Bear Flying Ace teddies, pewter ...

Former Compton Student Starts Airline Career

Fresh off the back of her recent Skills Test success, student member Olivia Clarke is off to fly the ‘big stuff’… Please take a look at her incredible story here: ...

Our Harvard Warbird was in George Cloony series

Last night’s episode of the Channel 4 George Clooney series ‘Catch-22’ featured our Harvard Warbird in a pivotal role. Painted up to look like a grinning shark of the skies, ...

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