Meir is a suburb in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire situated between Lightwood and Longton.

The last official flight was on 16 August 1973 when Fred Holdcroft flew a Piper Tri-Pacer carrying a Sentinel journalist to Manchester.

[4] The last unofficial flight "a year or two" later by Eric Clutton was in a home-made folding machine called FRED (Flying Runabout Experimental Design) which the pilot towed home behind his car.

[5][6] The light planes used to be parked on the grass alongside the A50 road, opposite the Airport Garage, which remains.

The twin tunnels were walled with ceramic panels which were reported to have cost about £1,000 each when they began to come loose through rusting of their attachments after a few years[citation needed].