RAF Cheadle

The airport as described is not documented to have existed. The query likely stems from a data error in a non-official source, which may have confused the location with a historical RAF presence in the wider Cheadle area or mistakenly assigned an airfield code to the site.

The site at the specified coordinates is now the Cheadle Royal Business Park. It is a large, modern, and fully developed commercial and leisure hub featuring corporate offices, hotels (e.g., Premier Inn), a private hospital (The Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal), a David Lloyd health club, and various restaurants and retail outlets.

There is no historical evidence of a flying airport at these coordinates. The location (53.391312, -2.212458) was historically part of the extensive grounds of the Cheadle Royal Hospital, a major psychiatric facility founded in 1766 which operated on this site until its grounds were redeveloped in the late 20th century.

The name 'RAF Cheadle' is likely a confusion with one of two separate, non-flying RAF stations:
1. **RAF Cheadle Hulme**: A nearby station in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport that operated from 1941 to 1959. It was No. 4 School of Technical Training and was not an airfield, but a ground-based facility for training radio mechanics and operators.
2. **RAF Cheadle (Staffordshire)**: A different station located approximately 30 miles south in Staffordshire, which was a major GCHQ signals intelligence (SIGINT) station that closed in the early 2000s. This was also not an airfield.

The ICAO code 'GB-1097' is not an official ICAO designation and is likely a user-assigned code from a flight simulator scenery database or an unofficial airfield list.

Zero. The site was never a documented airfield and is now a densely developed commercial and leisure park, making any future aviation use impossible.