RAF Warwick RLG

RAF Warwick is just south of the town of Warwick on the Stratford Road. It was a large grass field called Tournament field.

Airspeed AS.10 Oxford II.

There were : 4 x Blister hangars. (all removed bar one on my visit 30 ‎June ‎2007. Now removed but I believe gone to a good home). A grass airfield and a small hutted camp to the south (all built over). Only minor servicing of aircraft would have taken place here, major servicing and repairs back at its parent airfield RAF Church Lawford.

One of the buildings that were on the communal site.

Now all gone.

RAF Warwick was opened in 1941 as a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for RAF Church Laword Flying Instructors School (FIS), using Tutors and Oxfords. The four Blister hangars were dispersed around the east & southern boundaries and the camp was at the southern end.

Showing how flimsy the frame work was, just welded rods & bars and a covering of corrugated iron sheet and sometimes glass skylights were added if needed and curtains to cover the front & rear as doors. To close off the entrances to the weather.

1 FIS used Warwick as its RLG for nine months in 1942. From the 27th December 1942 to 29th June 1945. 18th Pilots Advanced Flying Unit (PAFU) took over still with RAF Church Lawford as parent using Oxford's and Defiants training multi engined pilots for bomber & transports and mostly pilots from the Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

I spent quite a while listening to this Blackbird singing. Showing the frame work at the front of the hangar. These buildings were placed on the bare earth and pinned to the ground by iron pickets and the earth was hardened and flattened. The fitters may have made some areas with wooden floors from old boxes and benches etc., to make their job easier.

 Warwick Castle.