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Enstone (Decoy)

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
Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Kidlington

Associated Airfield(s):

Fawler / Glympton

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