RAF Babdown Farm

Royal Air Force Babdown Farm or more simply RAF Babdown Farm is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and 7.1 miles (11.4 km) south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.

Babdown was built in 1940 as a relief landing ground (RLG) with two grass runways and a flare path for No.

3 Flying Instructors School moved into Babdown Farm when the airfield re-opened in August 1942, using the airfield for night flying with Airspeed Oxford and Miles Master trainers,[3] with the rest of the unit at RAF Hullavington and RAF Castle Coombe.

[7] As with the majority of airfields hosting training units there were a number of serious and fatal accidents due to pilot error and ageing machines which had been repeatedly used by inexperienced crews.

[1] The site is now partially occupied by an industrial estate known as "Babdown Airfield"[8] and the remainder has been returned to agriculture.