Cotswold Airport is a private general aviation airport, near the village of Kemble in Gloucestershire, England. Located 4.5 NM southwest of Cirencester, it was built as a Royal Air Force (RAF) station and was known as RAF Kemble. The Red Arrows aerobatics team was based there until 1983. Since 2000, it is used for the storage and recycling of retired airliners, as well as flying schools, clubs, and industry.
Cotswold Airport control tower
The RAF Kemble main entrance area in 1967 with a pre-war hangar in the left background and a Spitfire as gate guardian
The airport, looking east
The central area of the airport, looking west. An air show is in progress; some Boeing 747s kept in storage at the airport can also be seen.
Kemble is a village in the civil parish of Kemble and Ewen, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. Historically part of Wiltshire, it lies 4 miles (6.4 km) from Cirencester and is the settlement closest to Thames Head, the source of the River Thames. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 940. At the 2011 census the parish had a population of 1,036.
Cotswold Airport, previously known as Kemble Airport, looking east in 2009