RAF Odiham

England

51.2344, -0.9509 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Odiham opened in Hampshire in 1937 and served in the Second World War as an army-cooperation and fighter station, flying North American Mustangs and Hawker Typhoons. Through the post-war decades it was a fighter and then a transport base before settling into its modern role as a helicopter station. It remains an active RAF main operating base today, home to the Chinook heavy-lift helicopter force.

Photographs

Royal Air Force Army C-operation Command, 1940-1943. CH2417 — Royal Air Force Army C-operation Command, 1940-1943. Air gunners of [No. 400 Squadron](/squadrons/406/) RCAF being trained in aircraft recognition and judging the distances of enemy aircraft by means of scale models, at [Odiham](/airfields/6291/), Hampshire.

ⓘ licence & credit
Royal Air Force official photographer, Tovey P H F (Mr) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Army_C-operation_Command,_1940-1943._CH2417.jpgView source & full licence →

Canadian Forces in Britain during the Second World War CH2416 — Canadian Forces in Britain during the Second World War Canadian air gunners from a [Westland Lysander](/aircraft/28/) army co-operation squadron practise shooting at a moving target with a camera gun at [RAF Odiham](/airfields/6291/), Hampshire.

ⓘ licence & credit
Royal Air Force official photographer, Tovey P H F (Mr) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Forces_in_Britain_during_the_Second_World_War_CH2416.jpgView source & full licence →

Home to

No. 4 Squadron — 84 Group
No. 13 Squadron — 71 Group
No. 225 Squadron — 70 Group

People connected to this base

1 person cross-referenced to this airfield — through a posting here, a squadron based here, or aircrew who flew from it.

Name	Rank	Connection	Dates
Stone, James Stanley	Pilot II	Aircrew (squadron based here)	—