Residential areas lie to the south and east, occupying the old airfield married quarters and officers' mess, now known as Throgmorton Hall.

The aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (number P768) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee, Blanefield Airfield Operations.

Like many others of this period, the airfield was provided with a cluster of general service sheds and a camp consisting largely of wooden buildings.

The School was transferred to Old Sarum from Stonehenge Aerodrome in January 1921 and for many years ran mixed courses for Army and Air Force personnel.

Initially equipped with Bristol F.2 Fighters, it subsequently received the Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, in January 1931, and Hawker Audaxes in December 1933.

The mid-1930s saw the beginning of the RAF expansion scheme, where many First World War airfield sites were inspected to see if they would be suitable for the new permanent stations which were planned due to the increased threat to Britain from Nazi Germany.

Old Sarum Airfield was identified as suitable for becoming a permanent station, and the period between 1934 and 1937 saw the construction of new domestic, administrative and technical buildings.

Its line of hangars still looked out onto the grass flying field, while a Roman road still formed the northern border of the airfield.

The squadron continued to be primarily engaged in training and developing ground support techniques, including the spraying of poison gas, although this was never actually used.

This took the place of 110 RCAF Squadron on 9 June 1940 and with the growing threat of a Nazi invasion of the Britain, it was engaged in patrolling the south coast for enemy landings.

It was out-stationed at Larkhill to be close to the Royal Artillery camp there, and served as the nucleus from which all future air observation post (AOP) units originated.

During the Battle of Britain, as losses mounted, the shortage of fighter pilots became so desperate that a number of army cooperation trainees were selected at Old Sarum and immediately sent to Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire training units.

During the massive campaign of enemy attacks on RAF airfields in the summer and autumn of 1940, Old Sarum escaped lightly, but during the night of 11/12 May 1941 one hangar was burnt out in an air raid and two aircraft were destroyed.

During the first two years of war, it became clear that higher performance aircraft were needed and so a small number of Hurricanes and Harvards joined the unit in early 1941; they were soon followed by a flight of Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks.

Because of the limitations of the landing ground at Old Sarum, a larger satellite was prepared at Oatlands Hill, some 5 mi (8.0 km) away to the north-west.

1944 marked the end of a period of major expansion in the AOP squadrons; the spare hangar space at Old Sarum Airfield was used by 3505 Servicing Unit, which maintained numerous aircraft operating in small and scattered detachments to provide practice facilities for anti-aircraft and searchlight sites.

The brick-built buildings now occupied by Wessex Archaeology immediately adjacent to the airfield include two operations/large scale map rooms with upper viewing galleries: one is now the company's drawing office and the other is the finds processing area.

Plans for the D-Day landings were well advanced by early 1944 and included the requisition of all of the facilities at Old Sarum, to form part of the 2nd TAF Concentration Area.

This was, in effect, the hinterland and supply location of the many ports and embarkation points of the ships and landing craft of the invasion forces.

Seven large tented camps were set up in the countryside around the airfield and a force of over a thousand fitters was established to undertake the waterproofing of the 25,000 invasion vehicles.

A large part of the airfield was used to assemble the long lines of trucks and other vehicles, and the station hangars were pressed into service as the principal workshops.

Old Sarum was transferred from the RAF to the Army in December 1971; the JHDU was disbanded in 1976 but flying continued until November 1978 when 622 VGS moved to Upavon.

In 1986 Brooklands obtained a CAA licence for the airfield which formally defined the runway position and allowed flying training to be carried out (initially by the Wiltshire Aerospace Club).

Old Sarum also played host to the Dorset Gliding Club from October 1981, using Slingsby T.21 gliders and an ex-MOD mobile hangar, before moving to Eyres Field in 1989.

OSFS operated Piper PA-28s and Aero AT-3s, until the business was rebranded as GoFly UK in February 2013, as a sister company to the Old Sarum-based GoSkyDive.

Local people formed a "SOS – Save old Sarum" group and campaigned to stop the 462 houses being built, in order to preserve the airfield, the conservation area and its history.

[18] Earlier that month, Old Sarum Airfield Ltd had submitted a planning application to repair and refurbish the hangar; the cost of the proposed work was reported to be £3 million.

A number of complete and partial aircraft in the collection have links to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment which operated from 1918 to 1992 at Boscombe Down.

Volunteers have built, refurbished or recreated several historic aircraft including a Westland Scout helicopter[22] and the front section of a Lancaster bomber.