The airfield was completed in 1941, and called RAF Edgehill.
No. 21 Operational Training Unit (OTU) was based at the airfield operating Vickers Wellingtons, Miles Martinets and Hawker Hurricanes also No.12 OTU were based at the airfield as well.
The airfield was also used for the flight testing of the Gloster E28/39 in 1942 after it had made its maiden flights at RAF Cranwell.
After the war it became a storage depot. After a brief period as a Flying Training School, it finally closed as an RAF station in 1953.
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