RAF Chilbolton

RAF Chilbolton USAAF Station AAF-404
Chilbolton, Hampshire in England
Aerial Photo of Chilbolton Airfield - 20 April 1944
RAF Chilbolton Shown within Hampshire Show map of Hampshire RAF Chilbolton RAF Chilbolton (the United Kingdom) Show map of the United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°08′36″N 001°26′23″W / 51.14333°N 1.43972°W / 51.14333; -1.43972
Type	Royal Air Force station Satellite station 1942-43B Relief Landing Ground 1940-42
Code	CI[1]
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Operator	Royal Air Force United States Army Air Forces
Controlled by	RAF Fighter Command 1940-43 1945-61 * No. 9 Group RAF * No. 10 Group RAF * No. 70 (T) Group RAF[1]
Site history
Built	1939 (1939)/40
In use	September 1940 - 1961 (1961)
Battles/wars	European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation	88 metres (289 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 02/20 1,463 metres (4,800 ft) Asphalt 06/24 1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Asphalt 12/30 1,645 metres (5,397 ft) Asphalt

Royal Air Force Chilbolton or RAF Chilbolton is a former Royal Air Force station in Hampshire, England. The airfield was located in Chilbolton approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southeast of Andover.

Opened in 1940, it was used by the Royal Air Force and later by the United States Army Air Forces. During the war it was used primarily as a troop carrier airfield for parachutists. After the war it was used for military jet aircraft training before closing as an RAF station in 1946, although it was then used until the early 1960s by the Vickers-Supermarine and Folland aircraft companies for flight testing and development flying.^[2]

Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property, being used as agricultural fields.^[2]