RAF Southrop
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||||||||||
Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Southrop, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
Built | 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||
In use | 1940-1947 | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°43′50″N 001°44′24″W / 51.73056°N 1.74000°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Southrop or more simply RAF Southrop is a former Royal Air Force satellite station west of the village of Southrop, Gloucestershire during the Second World War from August 1940 to November 1947.
It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and Harvard training aircraft for No. 23 Group RAF.
The following units were here at some point:[1]
- No. 2 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
- No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAF
- No. 3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
- No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAF
- No. 27 Group Communication Flight RAF
- No. 27 (Signals Training) Group RAF
- No. 1539 (Beam Approach Training) Flight RAF
Current use
The site is currently farmland.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Southrop". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 23 June 2020.