Royal Flying Corps (1914–1918) Royal Air Force (1918–1993)
Condition
Closed
Site history
Built
1912 (1912)
In use
1912–1993 (1993)
Fate
Transferred to the British Army and became Trenchard Lines.
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: UPV, ICAO: EGDJ, WMO: 03744
Elevation
175 metres (574 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
05/23
Grass
08/26
Grass
18/36
Grass
Royal Air Force Upavon, or more simply RAF Upavon, is a former Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It was a grass airfield, military flight training school, and administrative headquarters of the Royal Air Force. The station opened in 1912 and closed in 1993, when it was transferred to the British Army and became known as Trenchard Lines.
The station motto was In Principio Et Semper, and translated from Latin means "In the Beginning and Always".[1]
^Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 110. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
Royal Air Force Upavon, or more simply RAFUpavon, is a former Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It was a grass airfield, military flight...
census was 4,461. Upavon airfield, now called Trenchard Lines, and previously RAFUpavon, is situated about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Upavon village. The...
Group, group headquarters, RAFUpavon Mobile Air Operations Team, 244 Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals, RAFUpavonRAF Aldergrove — under operational...
Station Aldergrove, Leuchars Station and Upavon Station (former RAF stations) are listed in recognition of the RAF retaining a presence at each site. Remote...
Group RAF; No. 44 Group RAF; No. 45 Group RAF; No. 46 Group RAF; No. 216 Group RAF; No. 229 Group RAF; No. 114 Wing RAF, and No. 116 Wing RAF at RAF Hendon...
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...
subsumed into RAF Strike Command and relocated to RAFUpavon, whereas the TCW moved to nearby RAF Brize Norton. They were replaced by the RAF Support Command...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies) begin with the two letters "EG". RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands also uses the "EG" code. Airport names...
(RAF Hendon, England) Transport Command Development Unit Transport Command Examining Unit 1310 Flight RAF (RAFUpavon, England) 1359 Flight RAF (RAF Lyneham...
RAFUpavon, and finally the Electrical and Wireless School at RAF Flowerdown. 23 Group was transferred to RAF Training Command on 1 May 1936. The RAF...
Air Force Communication Wing RAF, was established on 31 March 1945, and disbanded only three and a half months later at RAF Buckeburg on 15 July 1945, by...
Sopwith Snipes and Hawker Woodcock II before moving to RAFUpavon on 14 October 1926. 25 Squadron RAF reformed here on 26 April 1920 with the Snipe before...
Established in 1912 at the Upavon Aerodrome, it is the longest existing flying training school. The school was based at RAF Little Rissington from 1946...
Squadron, dropped to the ground and caught fire after engine failure near RAFUpavon, two killed. 11 July 1961 - XG134 Hawker Hunter FGA.9, 208 Squadron, flew...
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