Compton Abbas Airfield is located 2.7 NM south of Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury is a town in Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury. The town is built 718 feet above sea level on the side of a chalk and greensand hill, which is part of Cranborne Chase, the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset...

, Dorset

Dorset

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England

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Compton Abbas Aerodrome has a CAA

United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority

The Civil Aviation Authority is the public corporation which oversees and regulates all aspects of aviation in the United Kingdom. The CAA head office is located in the CAA House on Kingsway in Holborn, London Borough of Camden...

 Ordinary Licence (Number P851) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Compton Abbas Airfield Limited). The aerodrome is not licensed for night use.

It was from this airfield in May 1993 that tycoon Asil Nadir

Asil Nadir

Asil Nadir is a Turkish Cypriot businessman, who was Chief executive of Polly Peck, which he took over as a small textile company, growing it during the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed companies, with interests in consumer electronics, fruit distribution and packaging...

 flew to France in a six-seater Piper Seneca as he fled to Northern Cyprus.

External links

• Abbas Air Compton Abbas' official website