Hi Mark,

welcome to OSM. This is your first edit and you are already deleting objects. That's not the usual way it is done in OSM. The problem with your deletion is, that the OSM object in the database is gone now. But i can still see the way in the aerial imagery. So what might happen now: If a sofa mappers comes along in this area without the local knowledge you and i have, the way is going to be added again without the correct tagging the way had before your deletion: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1081559446/history/4
And that is going to be really life threatening, because routing engines start proposing routes using this way now.

The way has had access=no tagging before you deleted it. Because of this tagging the way would never be used in routing engines respecting the access tag and it was also drawn by the renderer harder to see than usual path.

Long story short. I revert your edit. Please do not delete objects in OSM which can be seen in real world or even aerial imagery. Better add a proper access tag to it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
Or in this case, as you wrote: "Path has been fenced off". Just add the fence please. That would be an improvement to the map.

Some more wiki links which might be interesting:

* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don't_remove_objects_that_you_don't_need_or_like
* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dfence
* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix when the path is gone but still visible in aerial imagery
* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aeroways

You might also want to get in contact with https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AndreasP5 who is member of the club taking care of that Flugplatz and who initially added the path with the correct tags.

Best Regards