RAF Quedgeley

RAF Quedgeley
	Located near Quedgeley in Gloucestershire
	RAF Quedgeley
Coordinates	51.8204°N 2.2675°W
Type	Non-flying
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Controlled by	Royal Air Force
Site history
Built	1914
In use	1914-1926; 1939-1995
Garrison information
Garrison	RAF Maintenance Command

RAF Quedgeley was a Royal Air Force station near Quedgeley, Gloucestershire.

History

The site was first occupied in 1914. It closed as an independent RAF unit on 13 February 1995.

As of 1915 part of the site was the No 5 National Filling Factory[1] which supplied ammunition during the First World War. At one point 6364 people, mainly women, were employed at the site. The factory produced over 10.5 million 14" and 16" shells, 7 million cartridges and 23 million fuses and other components. The buildings were demolished between 1924 and 1926.

In World War II, No. 7 Maintenance Unit, RAF Quedgeley was opened on 15 April 1939 as a storage and maintenance site for aircraft equipment and motor vehicles. It continued in this logistics role until its closure in 1995, with the storage of large quantities of basic equipment such as furniture.

Current use

The site has subsequently been sold and is being developed for housing (Kingsway Village) and industrial uses.

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References

Citations

History of the Filling Factory

External links

History of The RAF in Quedgeley

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[1] History of the Filling Factory