Mystery planes landing at 3 a.m.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

I saw a pink, fluffy UFO today Sam   



Emmi - I'm often still up in the early hours so if you want company to camp out by the airport give me a shout!

[Spitfire58]

I saw a pink, fluffy UFO today Sam   



Emmi - I'm often still up in the early hours so if you want company to camp out by the airport give me a shout!

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[Pho]

My guess would be military. I seem to remember a discussion about military movements at the airport at night in another place a few years back. You do occasionally see military planes at the airport in the day, and there is a big base right next to it.
If you were bringing in drugs in a light plane, surely you would be daft to use the airport. There is a very remote strip at the tip of Jandia built by Herr Winter from Cofete. It is apparently still used occasionally by light aircraft, and it certainly looks serviceable. You would need on the ground assistance to light it if you wanted to land at night, but it is so remote you would probably not be noticed in the day. There is also a strip in the middle of the island used for pleasure flights, and so probably unmanned outside normal working hours.

[Emmi Smith]

Maybe talking about the old original airport near Tetir?  Now being used I believe to house illegal immigrants, or so I was told.

[TrickyFox]

There is also a strip in the middle of the island used for pleasure flights, and so probably unmanned outside normal working hours.

The air strip is called 'Aeródromo del Jarde' and is to the east of Valles de Ortega - at least I assume this is the one.

[Emmi Smith]

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that one. https://www.fuerteventura-bidi.com/index...xcursions/

[Emmi Smith]

"My mystery planes" are all on the direct flight path into the main airport,don't think they are going anywhere else.

[erik_tonny]

Maybe because the airstrip at villa Winter is no longer functional?

[Pho]

The abandoned Herr Winter airstrip in Jandia is marked on Google earth at 28 5 19N 14 29 27W, on the right of the track north from Puerto de la Cruz. It was built to replace a wartime strip a bit to the west
 
Aeródromo del Jarde is signposted to the right of the FV50 from the FV2 to Antigua. It is still in use for pleasure flights

There is another abandoned airport as you say at Tetir, which was the main island airport until the present one opened about 1980 I think. It is now used for horse racing, but you can see the old terminal building at the side of the road.  Before Tetir, the airport was west of Tefia. I have looked but so far have not found any sign of it. It was there that the first scheduled flights from Madrid landed in the fifties.

We first visited Fue in 1983. The airport, on the present site, was little more than a shed - they put our bags on a low wall outside for us to collect. There was only one plane a week from the UK, which called at Lanzarote first.

[Johnrgby]

The abandoned Herr Winter airstrip in Jandia is marked on Google earth at 28 5 19N 14 29 27W, on the right of the track north from Puerto de la Cruz. It was built to replace a wartime strip a bit to the west
 
Aeródromo del Jarde is signposted to the right of the FV50 from the FV2 to Antigua. It is still in use for pleasure flights

There is another abandoned airport as you say at Tetir, which was the main island airport until the present one opened about 1980 I think. It is now used for horse racing, but you can see the old terminal building at the side of the road.  Before Tetir, the airport was west of Tefia. I have looked but so far have not found any sign of it. It was there that the first scheduled flights from Madrid landed in the fifties.

We first visited Fue in 1983. The airport, on the present site, was little more than a shed - they put our bags on a low wall outside for us to collect. There was only one plane a week from the UK, which called at Lanzarote first.

When we first came February 1979 one flight per week from Luton going to Teneriffe, and the collected you on, as we went no way back, not 100% sure, but I do not think we airport we arrived at was the existing one, as we were staying at one of the hotels on The Dunes, and we did not go anywhere near Puerto to get there was only about  a twenty minute drive if I recall correctly.