RAF Stoke Orchard

Royal Air Force Stoke Orchard or more simply RAF Stoke Orchard is a former Royal Air Force station near the village of Stoke Orchard, north west of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire during the Second World War.

The airfield was developed in 1940–41, originally as a Relief Landing Ground.

The factory produced Hawker Typhoons, with the first aircraft leaving the flight shed on 7 September 1942.

A firing range on the far side of the airfield was used for gun calibration prior to new aircraft departing for the parent factory at Brockworth, for delivery to the RAF.

[2] The former Coal Board site has now been developed as a housing estate by Bloor Homes, with the streets named after significant names relating to the former RAF base and Gloster Aircraft Company such as Armstrong Road, Whittle Close, Feddon Close, Hurricane Drive and Zura Drive.