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Mount Farm

Major
Also known as: Mount Farm Aerodrome / RAF Mount Farm / USAAF Station 234
County: Oxfordshire
Current Status: Farmland / Gravel pits / Housing
Date: July 1940 - 1946
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF / USAAF
Prominent People: Adrian Warburton
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
  • Berinsfield Library
  • Berinsfield Parish Council
  • Drayton St Leonard Parish Council



Main unit(s) present:

  • No 1 PRU
  • 7th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance)
  • 7th Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group
  • No 8 (Coastal) OTU
  • No 12 OTU
  • 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Sqn
  • 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Sqn
  • No 15 OTU

  • 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Sqn
  • No 34 Wing Support Unit

  • No 104 (Photographic Reconnaissance) Wing

  • No 140 Sqn
  • No 540 Sqn
  • No 541 Sqn
  • No 542 Sqn
  • No 543 Sqn
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Remains of a runway at Mount Farm, 1 March 2008.

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Remains of a runway at Mount Farm, 25 April 2011.

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Remains of a runway at Mount Farm, 30 October 2011.

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Remains of a runway at Mount Farm, 30 October 2011.

Mount Farm, c. 1940 - 1946. Courtesy of John Newman

Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Benson

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