18 March 2024
Not so much a dream house… more of a dream opportunity for someone to buy a house with direct access to an airfield AND business premises including a hangar and workshop.
The £900,000 McLean Aviation premises and house at Rufforth Airfield (West) includes a five-bedroom detached house and gardens, and multiple outbuildings including a 71ft x 60ft hangar suitable for light industrial use.
The buildings have been used as an aircraft maintenance and repair business, with an emphasis on gliders. It’s adjacent to York Gliding Centre.
The existing McLean Aviation business premises are part of the sale
However, the original planning agreement to build the house includes a restriction limiting its occupation to someone solely or mainly employed in the business on site. The dwelling must remain in the same ownership as the office workshop/store and hangar. The current business is not for sale.
The house and hangar are for sale with Wishart Estate Agents based in Tadcaster, Yorkshire.
Rufforth Airfield is effectively divided in two. Rufforth West comprises runway 17/35 and the airfield west of this runway. It’s operated by York Gliding Centre. Resident aircraft include a number of touring motor gliders and tug aircraft, as well as gliders.
Rufforth East is home to a gyrocopter school and a variety of privately owned aircraft including gyrocopters, three-axis and weight-shift microlights and other light aircraft.
Oh, and on the far boundary of the property is a Stanton air-raid shelter.
