Current Use
The airfield is in part still usable. Many of its original buildings can still be seen, including the Control Tower, some hangars and the increasingly rare timber buildings which date back to 1939.
Being government owned it is used for an airshow every year. It now has mixed purposes as storage, a racing circuit, karting track and now the new Isle of Man Prison. Development of the village of Jurby has also encroached on to parts of the airfield.
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