The aerodrome's site was farmland on the north side of the A4 road, south of Yatesbury village.

[2] The following units were here at some date before the inter-war years:[3] From 1936 the Bristol Aeroplane Company operated part of the west site as a civilian flying school (No.

[8] Guy Gibson, leader of the famous "Dambusters" raid (Operation Chastise) of 1943, took his ab initio training here from November 1936 to January 1937.

2 Radio School RAF, where among the instructors was Arthur C. Clarke, later a science fiction author and inventor.

[1] An estimated 70 died flying from Yatesbury, including aircrew from Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia,[10] Poland, Russia, South Africa, and the United States.

[2] During the Cold War in the 1950s, training of radar operators, mechanics and fitters continued at East Camp.

In 1969 the wooden huts were demolished and the land returned again to farming, leaving only a number of brick-built buildings, including the Officers' Mess, the gymnasium and three hangars.

[14] In 1998 North Wiltshire District Council designated Yatesbury Aerodrome a Conservation Area.

The following units were here at some point from the inter-war years:[3] Media related to RAF Yatesbury at Wikimedia Commons