Hixon
Also known as: | Airfield Industrial Estate / Hixon Aerodrome / Hixon Airfield Industrial Estate / Jupiter Business Park / RAF Hixon / RAF Station, Hixon |
County: | Staffordshire |
Current Status: | Farmland / Industry |
Date: | 13 May 1942 - 5 November 1957 |
Current Use: | Disused |
Used By: | RAF |
Landing Surface Types: | Paved |
Aircraft Roles: | Trainer |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2024):
- Agrii
- Airfield Garage
- ALE
- Allett Mowers
- Brucom Distribution Ltd
- Cox Long Limited
- DMN Logistics
- Envirostik Holdings (UK)
- ESS Packaging
- Hixon Airfield Services
- Hixon Local History Society
- Hixon Memorial Hall - memorial plaque
- Hixon Parish Council
- Hortons Estate Ltd
- InCube Limited
- Intatec Limited
- iWood Timber Ltd
- JCB Power Products Broadcrown Ltd
- Leisure Plus
- Mammoet UK Ltd
- Mec Com Limited
- Saint Peter's Anglican Church, Hixon - RAF graves and commemorative stained glass window
- Sandmaster (UK) Holdings Ltd
- SSC Laser Cutting
- Stowe-by-Chartley Parish Council
- Total Packaging Systems Ltd
- Trident Steel
- Unique Auto Centre
- Walker Timber Engineering
Main unit(s) present:
- No 12 (P) AFU
- No 16 MU
- No 30 OTU
- No 1686 (Bomber) Defence Training Flight
Video and photographs of ABCT's Hixon Airfield memorial unveiling, Wednesday 25 September 2024. Courtesy of Ed Andrews
Footage from Hixon, November 1991. Courtesy of 1tothirtysix/R. Griffith
Plan of Hixon, c. 1945. Courtesy of Ed Andrews
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