Raf Southrop

RAF Southrop
RAF Southrop;
	IATA: none; ICAO: none;
Summary
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
Map
	RAF Southrop Location in Gloucestershire
Runways

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 1945.^[1]

It had three grass runways,^[2] It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and Harvard training aircraft for No. 23 Group RAF.^[3]

The defences included a double pillbox.^[4]

The following units were here at some point:^[5]

Current use

The site is currently farmland.^[5]

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^ "RAF Southrop, Glos". Derelict Places. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ "RAF Southrop Defences". Pillbox Study Group. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Southrop". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.