RAF Upavon

RAF Upavon
Near Upavon, Wiltshire in England
The airfield at former RAF Upavon, 2007
RAF Upavon Location in Wiltshire
Coordinates	51°17′26″N 001°46′42″W / 51.29056°N 1.77833°W / 51.29056; -1.77833
Type	Royal Air Force station
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Flying Corps (1914–1918) Royal Air Force (1918–1993)
Condition	Closed
Site history
Built	1912 (1912)
In use	1912–1993 (1993)
Fate	Transferred to the British Army and became Trenchard Lines.
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: UPV, ICAO: EGDJ, WMO: 03744
Elevation	175 metres (574 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 05/23  Grass 08/26  Grass 18/36  Grass

Royal Air Force Upavon, or more simply RAF Upavon, is a former Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It was a grass airfield, military flight training school, and administrative headquarters of the Royal Air Force. The station opened in 1912 and closed in 1993, when it was transferred to the British Army and became known as Trenchard Lines.

The station motto was In Principio Et Semper, and translated from Latin means "In the Beginning and Always".^[1]