[2] The Ministry of Defence land which surrounds the site is part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area.
[5] In June 1914, under the leadership of Lt Col (later Air Vice Marshal) F H Sykes, the airfield was the site of a gathering of RFC men and machines.
Known as the Netheravon Concentration Camp, the exercise was designed to test mobilisation and improve the RFC's public reputation, as well as providing training.
[7] Flight magazine reported "upwards of 700 officers and men" and published photographs showing lines of tents for the visiting squadrons.
[8] In August, following the declaration of war, 3 and 4 squadrons left for France to support the British Expeditionary Force.
1 Flying Training School; between 1924 and 1928, trainees included crews for the newly created Fleet Air Arm.
Additional married quarters were built at Airfield Camp in the 1950s, and c. 1952 a Roman Catholic church was opened there.
[5] For some years until 2011, when it moved to Staff College, Camberley, the headquarters of the Brigade of Gurkhas was housed at Airfield Camp.
The Mess is partly two-storey, while the linked accommodation block and the nine detached four-room chalets are single-storey.
Construction is softwood framing with asbestos-cement panels, their joints covered with painted wood strips, under a tiled roof.
At the site near the airfield, the 1914 Main Depot Offices, in the same style as the Camp buildings, are also Grade II.