Old Sarum (Ford Farm)
| Also known as: | Ford Farm Aerodrome / Old Sarum Aerodrome / RAF Old Sarum / RAF Station, Old Sarum / RFC Ford Farm / RFC Old Sarum / Sarum Business Park |
| County: | Wiltshire |
| Current Status: | Aviation |
| Date: | Opened August 1917 |
| Current Use: | Active |
| Used By: | RAF / RFC / Civil |
| Landing Surface Types: | Unpaved |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):
- Alexandra Heating Services Ltd
- Amira Restaurant Ltd
- Aurora Tourism Investments - formerly Tripos Tourism Group
- BL Red Ltd
- Blanefield Airfield Operations Ltd
- Blencowe Scaffolding Ltd
- Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
- Bourne Construction & Maintenance
- Brew UK Limited
- Castlegate Windows Ltd
- Clarke Instruments Ltd
- Clipper Enterprises Ltd
- Cloverland Ltd
- Codeology Ltd
- Dacol Painters & Decorators
- didBOX Ltd
- Easypv Ltd
- Equinox International
- Forking Out Ltd
- Griffiths Scaffolding
- GWP Protective
- Heat Experience Days
- Hippo Travel Ltd
- Holy Cow Ice Cream Ltd
- I-Want-A-Hot-Tub
- iCenta Controls
- John Rose
- Just A Second
- Kin Ho
- Labelcraft UK Ltd
- Laverstock & Ford Parish Council
- Linden Portway Ltd
- Masterprint
- Metalwise Engineering
- MW Contracts Ltd
- Phoenix Lifting Systems
- Primary Commercial Investments (UK) Ltd
- Reflex Move
- Rockvend Ltd
- Rosemary Pugh
- RR Training Ltd
- Salisbury Caravans Centre Ltd
- Sandra Silk Bookkeeping & Business Services
- Sarum CrossFit
- Sarum Graphics
- Savant Heating Ltd
- SpidaWebs
- Spire Pine Co
- Spruce Pools
- T Signs Ltd
- TK Hockey (UK) Ltd
- Trevor Peters Design
- TRS Motorsport Technology
- Viessmann Spares Direct
- W Mundy Building Contractors Ltd
- W Shipsey & Sons Ltd
- Yearwood Services Ltd
Main unit(s) present:
- No 1 School of Army Co-operation
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No 2 Personnel Holding Unit
- No 7 Sqn
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No 8 AACU
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No 11 TDS
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No 11 TS
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No 13 Sqn
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No 14 Personnel Transit Centre
- No 15 (Fighter) Sector
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No 16 Sqn
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No 17 (Fighter) Sector
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No 17 Personnel Transit Centre
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No 18 Sqn
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No 34 Sqn
- No 36 (Army Co-operation) Wing
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No 39 (RCAF) (Reconnaissance) Wing
- No 41 OTU
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No 43 OTU
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No 53 Sqn
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No 59 Sqn
- No 72 Wing
- No 84 Gp Communication Sqn
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No 98 Sqn
- No 99 Sqn
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No 103 Sqn
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No 104 'P' Balloon Flight
- No 105 Mobile Air Reporting Unit
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No 107 Sqn
- No 110 Sqn RCAF
- No 112 Sqn RCAF
- No 124 Sqn
- No 125 Sqn
- No 126 Sqn
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No 225 Sqn
- No 239 Sqn
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No 402 Air Stores Park
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No 404 Air Stores Park
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No 408 (Polish) Air Stores Park
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No 418 Air Stores Park
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No 615 Sqn
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No 651 Sqn
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No 652 Sqn
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No 653 Sqn
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No 654 Sqn
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No 655 Sqn
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No 658 Sqn
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No 660 Sqn
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No 661 Sqn
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No 662 Sqn
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No 810 Sqn
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No 846 Sqn
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No 879 Sqn
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No 992 (Balloon) Sqn
- No 1300 Mobile Wing RAF Regiment
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No 1471 (AAC) Flight
- No 2769 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2773 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2798 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2800 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2809 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2811 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 2839 Sqn RAF Regiment
- No 3205 Servicing Commando
- No 3206 Servicing Commando
- No 3207 Servicing Commando
- No 3209 Servicing Commando
- No 3210 Servicing Commando
- No 4161 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment
- Airsportuk
- Army Air Transport Training & Development Centre
- Army Co-operation Pool
- Artillery Co-operation Sqn
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Bustard Flying Club
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'D' (Army Co-operation) Flight
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Dorset GC
- GoFly
- Helicopter Development Unit
- Joint Helicopter Development Unit
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Joint Warfare Establishment
- Old Sarum Flying School
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PFA Group 172
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RAF Element, Helicopter Development Unit
- The RAF School of Army Co-operation
- The School of Air Support
- School of Army Co-operation
- School of Instruction, Southern Training Brigade
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School of Land/Air Warfare
- Shadow Flight Centre/Shadow Aviation Ltd
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Short Range Transport Development Unit
- Skydive South Coast
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Special Duties Flight
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VISTRE Flight
The control tower at Old Sarum, 15 June 2014.
A hangar at Old Sarum, 9 August 2014.
One of the surviving First World War hangars, 6 February 2017.
Footage of Old Sarum, 1930. Courtesy of British Pathé