RAF Windrush

RAF Windrush
Landing Strip, Windrush Airfield
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Royal Air Force
Location	Windrush, Gloucestershire
Built	1940 (Initial) 1942 Main buildings
In use	1940-1945
Coordinates	51°48′16″N 001°44′09″W / 51.80444°N 1.73583°W / 51.80444; -1.73583Coordinates: 51°48′16″N 001°44′09″W / 51.80444°N 1.73583°W / 51.80444; -1.73583
Map
RAF Windrush Location in Gloucestershire
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 00/00 0 0 Sommerfeld Tracking 00/00 0 0 Sommerfeld Tracking

RAF Windrush was a Royal Air Force station near Windrush, Gloucestershire. It was opened in 1940 and closed on 12 July 1945. Initially it was a Relief Landing Ground for RAF Chipping Norton, later coming under the control of RAF Little Rissington.

The airfield consisted of two Sommerfeld Tracking runways, a concrete perimeter track, 1 T1 building and 8 Blister Hangars. Most of this infrastructure was added in 1942. Some of the original buildings remain in situ though the site has been returned to agricultural use. The control tower has been preserved.

A memorial at the church in Windrush village describes Sgt Pilot Bruce Hancock RAFVR who died on 18 August 1940 when downing a German Heinkel bomber by ramming it with his unarmed training Avro Anson aircraft.

Following closure in 1945 the airfield remained active with a local flying club and for parachuting until 1997.