🇬🇧 RAF Chedworth Airport

RAF Chedworth, also known as Chedworth Aerodrome, was a Royal Air Force satellite station located near Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England. Construction began in late 1941, and it opened in April 1942 as a satellite station to RAF Aston Down. The airfield was primarily used for training purposes throughout its existence.

During its operational years, RAF Chedworth hosted various units, including detachments of No. 52 Operational Training Unit flying Supermarine Spitfires and Miles Magisters, No. 3 and No. 6 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Units with Airspeed Oxfords, and the Air Gunnery Squadrons of No. 60 and No. 63 OTU, which flew de Havilland Mosquitoes, Bristol Beaufighters, and Miles Masters. It also briefly served as home to the headquarters squadron of the Ninth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in 1944, utilizing Piper L-4 Grasshoppers and Stinson L-5 Sentinels.

The airfield was inactive by the 1980s, though it saw minor use into the 1950s and occasional military exercises in the 1970s. After the war, it was used by the Admiralty for storage until December 1945. Currently, the site is primarily agricultural, with much of the original infrastructure remaining, including most of the two runways, one blister hangar, the armoury, and the battle HQ building.

*Sources researched: en.wikipedia.org, abct.org.uk, news.bbc.co.uk, ariadne-portal.d4science.org*