page_title: RAF Chelveston
section_title: Post military use
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Chelveston / Post military use
caption_attribution_description: English: Sign offering sale of former USAAF/USAF/RAF base Chelveston, England.
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Chelveston or more simply RAF Chelveston is a former Royal Air Force station located on the south side of the A645, 5 miles east of Wellingborough, near the village of Chelveston in Northamptonshire, England. During the Second World War the airfield was occupied by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces. It was given the USAAF designation Station 105.
  During the Cold War, Chelveston housed some flying units, however its main role was that of a readiness station to receive USAF units from the United States in case of an emergency. In the mid-1970s, the majority of the airfield was sold by the Ministry of Defence to private landholders, with the exception of a military housing area occupied by U.S. servicemembers assigned to RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth.
context_section_description: In late 2005, RAF Chelveston were sold by Defence Estates to a businessman who is in the process of developing it into Chelveston Renewable Energy Park.  In May 2007 a new memorial to the men that served at the RAF station during the Second World War was unveiled in their memory by some of their comrades.
  Almost nothing of the former airfield remains, although some evidence of the wartime airfield can still be seen in aerial imagery.  
  The imprint of the 11,000' postwar jet runway (03/21), is clearly visible in aerial imagery.  Numerous small pieces of concrete in the grass can also be seen along the outlines of the former SAC runway.   The World War II runways, taxiways, hardstands and perimeter track, much of which was abandoned but still in existence during Chelveston's postwar use by SAC and USAFE were also completely removed and no evidence of them can be seen.  The 1977 removal of these facilities was very complete and thorough.  The postwar SAC taxiway 52°18′23″N 000°31′22″W was reduced from 100' wide to approximately 20 ft to create an access road for the RAF signals facility.  The EOR taxiway turnoff on the 03 runway end can still be seen as an imprint in the grass.
  The foundation of the J-type hangar, 52°18′06″N 000°32′00″W used by RAF Alconbury for storage can be seen.  A large pile of rubble is piled in the southeast corner and what the concrete foundation and remaining taxiway ends of concrete have various objects being piled on them.
  One of the foundations of a former T.2 hangar 52°18′15″N 000°32′02″W is also visible, just to the southwest being an intact wartime building along the access road.
  The foundation of the wartime control tower can be seen as a disturbance on the grass at 52°18′14″N 000°31′48″W
  Remains of the bomb dump are at 52°18′52″N 000°31′12″W
  A wartime building is intact at 52°17′59″N 000°31′30″W; additional foundations are just to the southwest of the USAF housing area at 52°18′06″N 000°32′40″W
caption: 2005 sign offering the remainder of RAF Chelveston for sale
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