RAF Fighter Command 1941-44 * No. 9 Group RAF RAF Bomber Command 1944- * No. 26 (Signals) Group RAF
Site history
Built
1940 (1940)/41
Built by
John Laing & Son Ltd
In use
August 1941 – March 1958
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: BHY
Elevation
141 metres (463 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
04/22
1,792 metres (5,879 ft) Tarmac
10/28
Tarmac
14/32
Tarmac
Royal Air Force Honiley or RAF Honiley is a former Royal Air Force station located in Wroxall, Warwickshire, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Coventry, England.
The station closed in March 1958, and after being used as a motor vehicle test track, it has been subject to planning permission from the Prodrive Formula One team for development of their Fulcrum test and development facility however this has been cancelled.
From September 2014 the site has been used by Jaguar Land Rover for heritage driving experiences with the location being known as Fen End.
Royal Air Force Honiley or RAFHoniley is a former Royal Air Force station located in Wroxall, Warwickshire, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Coventry, England...
Honiley is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall, in the Warwick district, in the county...
Units and a detachment of 6(P)AFU was based there for a few months. RAFHoniley assumed control of Chedworth in October and it was used by No. 2 (Air...
Unit RAF (63 OTU) 63 OTU was formed in August 1943 at RAFHoniley to train night fighter crews. No. 70 (Middle East) Operational Training Unit RAF (70...
2005. 15 July 1956 WP283, Attacker FB2, 1833 Sqn stalled on approach to RAFHoniley and crashed on road killing civilian. Following its retirement from service...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Station from September 1940 before being downgraded to a satellite of RAFHoniley from August 1941. After the war, the airport was returned to civil use...
available after US F1 Team collapsed. Prodrive had a facility at the former RAFHoniley airfield and LucasVarity proving ground near Wroxall, Warwickshire, together...
required better runway facilities, the squadron then moved to nearby RAFHoniley. The Midland Air Division was formed on 1 July 1953 to control Bramcote-based...
1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command, but they could not prevent widespread destruction of industrial cities. Only once did the RAF lose as many as nine...
(81 ha) motorsport facility called "The Fulcrum" (based at the former RAFHoniley airfield) near Wroxall, Warwickshire. On 28 April 2006, rallying and...
and the station came under control from the Signals Flying Unit RAF from RAFHoniley but not long after flying ceased at Stratford and the station was...
the UK. Gorton completed his training at RAF Heston and RAFHoniley, with No. 61 Operational Training Unit RAF, flying Supermarine Spitfires. He was disappointed...
appointments followed; from October 1952 he was station commander at RAFHoniley in England and from April 1953 was promoted to group captain and assigned...
included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
praise. Wing Commander Wheeler was then posted as Station Commander to RAFHoniley in Warwickshire. This was a night fighter station which at that time...
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