Royal Air Force Wheaton Aston or more simply RAF Wheaton Aston was a Royal Air Force station located just outside of the village of Wheaton Aston in Staffordshire, England. The base was actually in the hamlet of Little Onn which is 1.2 miles (2 km) north west of Wheaton Aston. The base was known locally as Little Onn or RAF Little Onn, but the policy of naming Royal Air Force stations was down to which parish the Station Headquarters was in.
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| - Royal Air Force Wheaton Aston or more simply RAF Wheaton Aston was a Royal Air Force station located just outside of the village of Wheaton Aston in Staffordshire, England. The base was actually in the hamlet of Little Onn which is 1.2 miles (2 km) north west of Wheaton Aston. The base was known locally as Little Onn or RAF Little Onn, but the policy of naming Royal Air Force stations was down to which parish the Station Headquarters was in. (en)
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| - RAF Wheaton Aston (en)
- RAF Little Onn (en)
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| - Delve, Ken. The military airfields of Britain; Wales and West Midlands. Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: Crowood Press, 2007. . (en)
- Thomas, Nick. Stafford at War 1939-1945. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword, 2009. . (en)
- Brooks, Robin J. Shropshire Airfields in the Second World War. Newbury, Berkshire, UK: Countryside Books, 2007. . (en)
- Chorlton, Martyn. Staffordshire Airfields in the Second World War. Newbury, Berkshire, UK: Countryside Books, 2007. . (en)
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| - Control tower at RAF Wheaton Aston in 2010 (en)
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| - Little Onn, Staffordshire (en)
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| - Shown within Staffordshire (en)
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| - Bomber training base (en)
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| - Royal Air Force Wheaton Aston or more simply RAF Wheaton Aston was a Royal Air Force station located just outside of the village of Wheaton Aston in Staffordshire, England. The base was actually in the hamlet of Little Onn which is 1.2 miles (2 km) north west of Wheaton Aston. The base was known locally as Little Onn or RAF Little Onn, but the policy of naming Royal Air Force stations was down to which parish the Station Headquarters was in. The airfield was one of the Royal Air Force's largest training environments in the Second World War with an average of 11,000+ flying hours per month by 1944. (en)
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| - Now private agricultural land (en)
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