Turweston Aerodrome
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| ICAO code | EGBT | ||
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| Height above MSL | 134 m (440 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 4 km east of Brackley | ||
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| opening | November 23, 1942 | ||
| operator | Turweston Flight Center Ltd. | ||
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| 09/27 | 1256 m × 23 m asphalt | ||
The Turweston Aerodrome is a former military airfield east of Brackley in the town of Turweston in Buckinghamshire , England . Today the airfield only has a usable paved runway and a parallel grass runway to the south. As the base of the Royal Air Force , Turweston had three paved runways.
history
RAF Turweston
Turweston Airfield was opened at the height of World War II as Royal Air Force Station Turweston , RAF Turweston for short , and from then on served the RAF Bomber Command as a training airfield , which was equipped with three paved runways. After hostilities ended, RAF Turweston was closed on September 23, 1945, but remained the property of the Air Ministry .
The site was initially used for civilian purposes and served the British Army as a depot in the 1950s.
Turweston Aerodrome
In 1994 the area on the eastern part of the former RAF station was reopened as a civilian airfield. A few years earlier, new aviation use had already begun in the form of glider operations on weekends. A conference center was built in 2004.
