page_title: Bicester Airfield
hierarchical_section_title: Bicester Airfield
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial photograph of Bicester Airfield, Oxfordshire
context_page_description: Bicester Aerodrome, formerly RAF Bicester, is an airfield on the outskirts of the English town of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Dating back to 1916, this military airfield is notable as the location of the first flight of the prototype Handley Page Halifax in 1939 and was later the home of No. 71 Maintenance Unit, RAF; the RAF finally left in 2004.
  The airfield consists of 400 acres of well-drained short-mown grass, with three nominal runways of 06/24, 13/31, 18/36, each 1,000 m long. The airfield surface is bumpy in places, due to collapsing field drains, requiring care on the part of pilots operating aircraft in those areas.
context_section_description: Bicester Aerodrome, formerly RAF Bicester, is an airfield on the outskirts of the English town of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Dating back to 1916, this military airfield is notable as the location of the first flight of the prototype Handley Page Halifax in 1939 and was later the home of No. 71 Maintenance Unit, RAF (Royal Air Force); the RAF finally left in 2004.
  The airfield consists of 400 acres (160 ha) of well-drained short-mown grass, with three nominal runways (not marked) of 06/24, 13/31, 18/36, each 1,000 m (3,281 ft) long. The airfield surface is bumpy in places, due to collapsing field drains, requiring care on the part of pilots operating aircraft in those areas.
caption: Bicester Airfield from above.
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