Watchfield
Major
| Also known as: | Arnhem Camp / RAF Station, Watchfield / RAF Watchfield / Watchfield Aerodrome / Westmill Wind Farm |
| County: | Oxfordshire |
| Current Status: | Farmland / Industry / Wind farm |
| Date: | 1937 (probable date) - 1972 |
| Current Use: | Disused |
| Used By: | RAF / Civil |
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/07/2013):
- Shrivenham Heritage Society
- Watchfield Parish Council
- Watchfield Village Website
- Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative Limited
Main unit(s) present:
- No 1 Beam Approach School
- No 1 Blind Approach School
- No 1 Chain Home Low Flight
- No 3 EFTS
- No 4 AONS
- No 5 MU
- No 6 MU
- No 8 MU
- No 11 AONS
- No 50 Gp Pool
- No 92 (Forward) Staging Post
- No 1547 BAT Flight
- Air Navigation & Bombing School
- Airfield Controllers' School
- Anson Detachment, Watchfield
- Beam Approach Calibration Flight
- Beam Approach Development Unit
- Beam Approach Technical Training School
- Blind Approach Calibration Flight
- Blind Approach School
- School of Air Traffic Control
- School of Flying Control
- Southern Command (AGA) GC
- Sparrow (Ambulance) Flight
- Watchfield GC
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| Decoy Airfield(s): |