RAF Southrop
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.It had three grass runways, It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and Harvard training aircraft for No. 23 Group RAF.The defences included a double pillbox.The following units were here at some point: 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
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Cotswold District Southrop
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N 51.730555555556 ° | E -1.74 ° |
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GL7 5DF Cotswold District, Southrop
England, United Kingdom
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