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RAF Akeman Street
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Royal Air Force Akeman Street or more simply RAF Akeman Street is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground located 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, England. It was named after the Roman road which crosses the airfield.

The airfield was a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Brize Norton, with building starting in 1939 and opening on 10 July 1940.[1] Active flying stopped on 15 August 1945, and the site was closed on 1 February 1947.

Based units

Units that used the airfield were

No. 6 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF based at RAF Little Rissington
(later became 6 SFTS) between 1942 and 1945.

Other unit posted to the site included a sub site of

No. 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF
.

A German bombing raid on Brize Norton on 16 August 1940 forced the Advanced Training Squadron to move to Akeman Street.[2]

The station closed on 1 February 1947.[3]

Current use

Little of the 10 Blister hangars and single large Bellman hangar remain today.[2]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 1-85260-372-0
    .
  2. ^ a b c "Akeman Street (Crawley)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  3. ISBN 1-85260-372-0
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