RAF Grove
[2] Grove was originally a training airfield for Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command 91 Group, and satellite for the No.[1] In May 1941, construction of the airfield began with a standard three concrete runway layout and in 1942, glider pilots from Brize Norton trained there, mainly using Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys and Airspeed Horsas.After D-Day, the Group was impressed for air ambulance and general theatre transport duties until moving to France in September 1944.The squadron flew occasional transport missions until they returned to the United States in December 1945, ending American use of the station.In 2017, Vale of White Horse District Council granted outline planning approval to Persimmon Homes to develop the northeast part of the former airfield and build a large housing estate on the property, called Wellington Gate after the RAF Vickers Wellington, a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber which flew from Grove airfield during the Second World War.
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