RAF Flying Training Command 1943 RAF Fighter Command1943- * No. 9 Group RAF * No. 81 (OTU) Group RAF
Site history
Built
1941 (1941)/42
In use
April 1942 - May 1945 (1945)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
251 metres (823 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
02/20
1,230 metres (4,035 ft) Concrete
10/28
1,160 metres (3,806 ft) Concrete
Aerial photograph of Chedworth airfield looking north, the control tower and airfield code are to the top left of the runway intersection, 7 June 1946.
Royal Air Force Chedworth or more simply RAF Chedworth is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located near Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England. It was used mostly for training during its existence and has been inactive since the 1980s.
Royal Air Force Chedworth or more simply RAFChedworth is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located near Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Gloucestershire John Howe, 1st Baron Chedworth (died 1742), British MP for Gloucester and Wiltshire John Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth (1714–1762), Lord Lieutenant...
California, 11 Nov 1943 – 18 May 1944 RAF Staverton, England, c. 8 June 1944 RAFChedworth, England, 19 June 1944 RAF Erlestokes, England, 9 July 1944 Detachments...
southwest of Cirencester, it was built as a Royal Air Force (RAF) station and was known as RAF Kemble. The Red Arrows aerobatics team was based there until...
was some 2.6 miles (4.2 km) further south, near Jackaments Bottom; when RAF Kemble (now Cotswold Airport) was built, the A429 was diverted south of the...
Clump burial ground Durotriges Big Dig Project, Winterborne Kingston Chedworth Roman Villa The leper hospital of Saint Mary Magdalen near Winchester...
well received and Hall subsequently cast Finch in a larger role in Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939), supporting Cecil Kellaway. Finch appeared in a war propaganda...
The road bypasses Dunholme to the south then it passes close to the former RAF Dunholme Lodge. It passes the headquarters for Lincolnshire Police on the...
a training base for pilots during the Second World War and was known as RAF Staverton. It was later used by Alan Cobham as he developed in-flight refuelling...
the town of Tetbury; then to the north of both Cotswold Airport (formerly RAF Kemble) and Kemble village. The last 2 miles (3.2 km) follow the route of...
Halt Chalford Charfield Charlton Kings Charlton Halt Chipping Sodbury Chedworth Halt Cheltenham High Street Halt Cheltenham High Street Cheltenham Leckhampton...
implying a military exit. It is a back entrance to RAF Welford, a Second World War airfield and now an RAF/USAF military installation mainly used for storing...
Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham (1837–1898) John Howe, 4th Baron Chedworth (1754–1804) John Strange Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden (1823–1897), Anglo-Irish...
halt was added at Jackament's Bridge on 3 July 1939, to serve the nearby RAF aerodrome but this closed after the war in September 1948. Due to low usage...
demolished after 1924 and the branch closed in 1925. In World War II an RAF station, RAF Quedgeley, was established on the site on 15 April 1939; it was a storage...
House Tetbury Cotswold Historic house Elizabethan manor house Chedworth Roman Villa Chedworth Cheltenham Archaeology Operated by the National Trust, artifacts...
During the Second World War, Fairford station was busy with traffic for RAF Fairford and a second goods siding was added to the station in 1944. The...
not until the Second World War, when the line was busy with traffic for RAF Fairford, that the Great Western Railway signalled and lengthened the loop...
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