RAF Membury

RAF Membury USAAF Station AAF-466
Located Near Lambourn, Berkshire, England
Membury airfield photographed on 8 August 1944. As Membury had been designed as a maintenance and repair depot, additional hangar space and other facilities were required. However, because the 04/22 runway could not be lengthened due to the hilly terrain on the eastern side, the secondary 17/35 was increased in length. This is what gives the runway layout an unusual shape.
Coordinates	51°28′41″N 1°33′18″W / 51.478°N 1.555°W / 51.478; -1.555
Type	Military airfield
Code	ME
Site information
Owner	Air Ministry
Controlled by	Royal Air Force  United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1942 (1942)
Built by	Gee, Walker & Slater[1]
In use	1942–1946 (1946)
Battles/wars	European Theatre of World War II Air Offensive, Europe July 1942 – May 1945
Garrison information
Garrison	Eighth Air Force Ninth Air Force RAF Transport Command
Airfield information
Runways Direction Length and surface 17/35 1,700 metres (5,577 ft) Concrete 04/22 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) Concrete 09/27 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) Concrete

Royal Air Force Membury or more simply RAF Membury is a former Royal Air Force station built in the civil parish of Lambourn in Berkshire, England, approximately 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north-northwest of Hungerford. The airfield was opened on the site of a civil airfield in August 1942, and closed in October 1946.

The base was used by both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). During the war it was used by several combat units with varying missions.

The airfield continued in use, but in the late 1960s, the M4 motorway was built (opening in 1971) and it ran straight through the airfield, including through the middle of the main runway. The Membury services were built on the site, in a triangle between the former two largest runways. A smaller airfield continues to operate on the southern half of the site, and the former technical site is now the Membury Business Park industrial estate.