RAF Southrop

RAF Southrop
Southrop, Gloucestershire in England
Former runway
Site information
Type	Royal Air Force Satellite Station
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Flying Training Command
Location
RAF Southrop Shown within Gloucestershire Show map of Gloucestershire RAF Southrop RAF Southrop (the United Kingdom) Show map of the United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°43′50″N001°44′24″W / 51.73056°N 1.74000°W / 51.73056; -1.74000
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1940 - 1947 (1947)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Runways Direction Length and surface 04/22 3,060 metres (10,039 ft)  Grass 14/32 2,790 metres (9,154 ft) Grass E/W 3,450 metres (11,319 ft) Grass

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 North American 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]

• 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. ^[5]

References

1. "Southrop Relief Landing Ground". Pastscape. Historic England. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
2. "RAF Southrop". Lost Airfields. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
3. "RAF Southrop, Glos". Derelict Places. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
4. "RAF Southrop Defences". Pillbox Study Group. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
5. "Southrop". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.

External links

• fotopic gallery