21 Dec, 2021 @ 15:00
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Just what I want for Christmas – entire airfield up for sale in Spain

Airport Ocana

WHAT do you get the man who has everything for Christmas? An entire airfield of course.

Ocaña Airfield, near Toledo and Madrid has been put up for sale at public auction.

A minimum bid has been set at €1,060,000, but you get a lot for your money.

The site covers a total area of 379,266 square metres, and features two runways of 1,280 and 700 metres with plenty of space to park aeroplanes.

Airport Ocana
Ocaña Airfield

There are two 1,600 square metre hangars with a main hall, office and toilets, as well as a separate 1,871square metre building which has a ground floor for aircraft maintenance, workshops, storage areas and changing rooms, and a first floor with training rooms and offices.

If that is not enough,a three floor students’ house has 43 rooms, classrooms, offices, a bar and restaurant, and even a swimming pool, playground and gardens.

According to the auctioneer, Escrapalia, bids may be submitted in sealed envelopes up to February 4, 2022. Bidders must pay a 5% security deposit, which will be returned after the auction.

The three highest bidders will then enter an online auction via the Escrapalia website from February 14 to 17.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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