Enstone (Decoy)
County: | Oxfordshire |
Current Status: | Farmland |
Date: | 10 April 1941 (earliest known date) - closed by 1 January 1942 |
Current Use: | Disused |
Used By: | RAF |
Decoy Type(s): | Q |
Decoy Number(s): | 74(a) |
Enstone operated as the first listed decoy airfield for Kidlington during World War Two. No traces of this place appear to have survived. This decoy lay a fairly short distance to the south-east of what became the real Enstone, and may well have closed because of its close proximity.
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/12/2015):
- Enstone Parish Council
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