Popular Culture
- RAF Oakley was the fictional air force base in England in the film Pearl Harbor, which was actually filmed at Badminton House.
- A hangar at RAF Oakley was actually used as a film set in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983, for the opening sequence (scripted as being in a Latin American country) in Roger Moore's penultimate appearance as Bond. The hangar, which with the use of computer technology was destroyed by a missile in the film, is now a warehouse used by Natural Building Technologies, a merchant of building materials.
- RAF Oakley was used in the filming of an episode of Midsomer Murders from 2003, 'Talent for Life', in which Honor Blackman drives along the runway with her male passenger friend.
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