RAF Stanton Harcourt

RAF Stanton Harcourt
Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire in England
Site information
Type	Royal Air Force Satellite station
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force
Location
RAF Stanton Harcourt Shown within Oxfordshire
Coordinates	51°44′31″N 001°24′33″W / 51.74194°N 1.40917°W / 51.74194; -1.40917
Site history
Built	1940 (1940)
In use	1940-1946 (1946)
Airfield information
Elevation	67 metres (220 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 00/00  Concrete 00/00  Concrete 00/00  Concrete

Royal Air Force Stanton Harcourt or more simply RAF Stanton Harcourt is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 4.4 miles (7.1 km) southeast of Witney, Oxfordshire and 6.6 miles (10.6 km) west of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.

Units

The following units were here at some point:

• No. 10 Operational Training Unit RAF
• No. 20 OTU
• No. 1341 (Special Duties) Flight RAF
• No. 1501 (Beam Approach Training) Flight RAF
• No. 1682 (Bomber) Defence Training Flight RAF

During the Second World War it was a satellite aerodrome for RAF Abingdon, to where No. 10 OTU crews would be sent once initial training was completed at Abingdon.

Current use

The site is now used for light industrial work and gravel pits. It's now been developed into a housing estate with most original buildings destroyed.

See also

• List of former Royal Air Force stations

References