page_title: RAF Chilbolton
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Chilbolton
caption_attribution_description: English: CG-4a Gliders of the 442d Troop Carrier Group at Chilbolton airfield just before Operation Market Garden.
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Chilbolton or RAF Chilbolton is a former Royal Air Force station in Hampshire, England. The airfield is located in Chilbolton approximately 4 miles south-southeast of Andover; about 62 miles southwest of London
  Opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and then 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.
  Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields.
context_section_description: Royal Air Force Chilbolton or RAF Chilbolton is a former Royal Air Force station in Hampshire, England.  The airfield is located in Chilbolton approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southeast of Andover; about 62 miles (100 km) southwest of London
  Opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and then 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.
  Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields.
caption: Closeup of CG-4As marshalled at Chilbolton in early September 1944 ready to be used in Operation "Market". Many of these gliders had been used in the 6 June D-Day invasion.
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