Operational Training Unit (OTU) Maintenance Unit (MU)
Code
HX[1]
Height
267 feet (81 m)[2]
Site information
Owner
Air Ministry Ministry of Defence Hixon Airfield Services
Controlled by
Royal Air Force
Site history
Built
1941-1942 (1941-1942)
Built by
Trollope & Cole[3]
In use
1942–1957
Materials
Tarmac[4]
Airfield information
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
22/06
1,650 yd (1,510 m) Concrete
28/10
1,400 yd (1,300 m) Concrete
34/16
1,200 yd (1,100 m) Concrete[5]
Royal Air Force Hixon, or more simply RAF Hixon, was a Royal Air Force station located on the north western edge of the village of Hixon in Staffordshire, England. The airfield was 7.5 miles (12.1 km) east of Stafford[6] and bounded at the west and north by railways.
After opening in 1942, it served as a base for No. 30 Operational Training Unit and, after the OTU left up until its closure in 1957, it served as a satellite site for No. 16 Maintenance Unit based at RAF Stafford.
^"RAF Hixon Airfield". Control Towers. 2001. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
^McLelland 2012, p. 117.
^Chorlton 2007, p. 57.
^McLelland 2012, pp. 18–19.
^"RAF Hixon Staffordshire". Airfield Archaeology. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
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