Dates: 1937 -

RAF Benson (IATA: BEX, ICAO: EGUB) is a Royal Air Force station near Benson in Oxfordshire, England. It is home to the Royal Air Force’s medium transport helicopters, the Aerospatiale Puma and the new EH101 Merlin.

Benson is currently home to 28 Squadron and 33 Squadron and also to Oxford University Air Squadron and 6 Air Experience Flight. It has now also formed 78 Squadron as a Merlin Squadron (previously a Sea King/Chinook Squadron based at RAF Mount Pleasant Airfield, Falkland Islands). Previous units once based there include the Queen’s Flight.

The Thames Valley Police helicopter (a Eurocopter EC135) and the Chiltern air ambulance helicopter (a Bolkow 105, call sign "Helimed24") are both based at Benson.

The airfield is a well-known frost hollow

Memories of RAF Benson

244 Sig Sqn (AS) RAF Benson in 2007
Written by Ian Durrant
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"I got away with producing the underground newsletter for about six issues. Fondly remember the articles on the 'Mad Jewish Film Producer, the 'Primitive Fishing' and Goldy with her Church Key' Also remember Glenfiddich chasers in the mess, Rosemary's baby, fish from Stornaway delivered by the Queens Flight and nocturnal visits to the Egg Farm with Demon Stan. You had to be there I suppose. Best to forget almost leaving for Portadown, N Ireland, with the Red Hands still painted on the vehicles. "

Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving RAF Benson

" Does anyone who served at RAF Benson, 82nd Battalion/Company? who may remember my mother, Sheila Quigley, who served there before she went to Egypt, please get in touch with me. Thank you Stephen Gerard Scullion "

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" Looking for information regarding Sylvia Taylor who was at RAF BENSON in the late 1950s, she worked as a typist or secretary at HQ. She was a very big friend of someone called Dorothy Benson in the same office. She originally came from the Stoke on Trent area. Would be very interested if anybody ..."

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"am looking for an old mate, Sylvia Taylor was at RAF Benson in one of the HQ Offices as a typist or secretary during the late 50s early sixties, would love to know where she is now or even where she was posted to from Benson. She was a big mate of Dorothy Baines. "

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" am looking for steve white. last known postin at raf benson (air traffic control) around 1994-1995. "

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" Quoting: Colin Ross [I] Quoting: Chris McAteer [I] Colin,I think you are an anglified jock, you have spent too long down south in the RAF, you can’t speak for "THE HIGHLANDERS", we were getting enough recruits before 97 when this lot got in, trying to recruit now is terrible, the ..."

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