QinetiQ Pershore is a Business Park and Trials Centre operated by QinetiQ. The site is located near the village of Throckmorton,

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

History

The site was created during 1933/4 for use by the

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

as a training station under the name of RAF Pershore. The following units were posted here at some point: * No. 1 Aircraft Preparation Unit RAF * No. 1 Ferry Unit RAF * No. 10 (Advanced) Flying Training School RAF * No. 23 Operational Training Unit RAF with

Vickers Wellington The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its g ...

s. * No. 50 Gliding School RAF * No. 1516 (Beam Approach Training) Flight RAF * No. 1681 (Bomber) Defence Training Flight RAF * Radar Research Flying Unit RAF (RRFU). - previously at

RAF Defford Royal Air Force Defford or more simply RAF Defford is a former Royal Air Force station located northwest of Defford, Worcestershire, England. History Second World War At the outbreak of the Second World War, Croome Court and its surrounding ...

The RAF station closed down during 1978.

Current use

The site is currently a Business Park and Trials Centre. It has occasionally been opened as an aerodrome, hosting an airshow. The last such event was scheduled for 11 June 2016.

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Pershore Pershore is a market town in the Wychavon district in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. The town is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2011 census, the population was 7,125. The town i ...

Military installations of the United Kingdom Research institutes in Worcestershire