RAF Southrop
Royal Air Force Southrop or more simply RAF Southrop is a former Royal [Air Force] List of former [Royal Air Force stations|Satellite Station] west of the village of Southrop, Gloucestershire during the Second World War from August 1940 to November 1945.
It had three grass runways, It was used as a Relief Landing Ground for Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard training aircraft for No. 23 Group RAF.
The defences included a double pillbox.
The following units were here at some point:
- No. 2 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
- No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAF
- No. 3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
- No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAF
- No. 27 Group Communication Flight RAF
- No. 27 (Signals Training) Group RAF
- No. 1539 (Beam Approach Training) Flight RAF