In 1940, the airport consisted of a grass strip on some cleared land.

The grass strip is still used by light aircraft today.

"We go flying from the grass strip all the time without filing."

The first test landing on a grass strip was on 16 August 1959.

Even the grass strip running between the driveway and the hedge was full of the stuff.

They saw Steve turn his aircraft and taxi to the end of the grass strip.

I turned not towards the castle but north along the grass strip that led to the cliff at the northern end of the island.

The early runway were grass strip and paved over in 1960.

The airport started in 1914 as a grass strip, and was used as a military training base.

The other grass strips were abandoned at that point.