Monument record 0847600000 - Marlow Airport/RAF Booker/Wycombe Air Park

Civil airfield requisitioned by Air Ministry in 1939 (B1) or June 1941 (B3). Used as No.21 Elementary Flying School (B2) flying Tiger Moths and Miles Magisters (B3). Also known as Booker airfield.
By 1955 the four wartime grass runways had been joined by a 90 foot wide pierced steel planking hard runway. The RAF continued use until 1963 with Bomber Command Communications Flight based here. Now operated by British Airways under lease from Wycombe District Council (B3) and known as Wycombe Air Park.
Recorded by Paul Francis in 'Airfield Defences - Surviving Structures in England 1996-1998' (B4).
Detailed Air Ministry site record plans (B5-6).
During WWII a technical site was constructed containing 4 Bellman hangars. The Elementary Flying School remained at Booker until it disbanded in February 1950. During the Korean War No.1 Basic Flying Training School was based at the site (B7).
Desk-based assessment(B9)
Topographic survey identified - Runway Identifiers: Two concrete numerals displayed the number 35. Each numeral was 3.5m wide and 11.4m long. The elongated form likely to aid a pilot or navigator when seeing the numerals foreshortened when in flight.
Dispersal Loop: Remnant remains of a WWII dispersal loop to the south-west of the site, formed by a circle of concrete, 30m diameter. In poor condition, concrete surface cracked and pitted.
Concrete Pads: Group of 3 concrete pads forming a T-shape, each block 0.60m sq.
Paving Slabs: Rectangular area of concrete paving slabs (4x3 slabs), central single width of slabs head south. Flanking pair of slabs on either side. Uncertain use.
Windsock Pole: Iron pole, 10m tall. Two flat profile uprights (2m high) support the main body of pole. Top of the pole the rotating arm is intact with light fitting. Possibly WWII element of the airfield. (B10).
Summary of airfield in 1944 (B11).