Site Details
Address
Dunstable Airfield, Tring Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Grid Reference
500114 - 220211

Local authority
South Bedfordshire DC

Sport England region
East

Competitions and events
The site has held regional championships or events and an inter-regional standard of competition or event , and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services  necessary for that level of competition or event

• Standard Class Nationals - July 2000
• Dunstable Regionals - August 2000

Training
The site has held regional team training or events, or individual elite training or participation for that or any of its disciplines, and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services necessary for that level of training or event.

• Participation gliding and performance training.

• Weekly courseswith professional staff and instructors;

Heritage
A heritiage site is one which has been used continually or a for a long time by that sport and which cannot be recreated in a different location.

• One of the earliest gliding sites in UK
• Close associations with Sir Philip Wells & the early development of soaring and cross-country gliding.

• Established 1930;

• Hangar and clubhouse are listed buildings;
• Long history of gliding development.

Facilities strategy
The site has been identified as of international or national importance in that sport’s strategic planning documents.

• BGA Strategic Plan - 2001 - 2006.

Physical characteristics
Identification of those characteristics, which if lost, would jeopardise the quality of the site.

• Adjacent to Dunstable Downs which provides ridge soaring in westerly winds.

Number of users
The site is important because of the numbers of people using it from any level of that sport

• Home of London Gliding Club with 281 members

Additional information

• Excellent catering & accommodation.