Monument record MBC47944 - Second World War Royal Air Force Instructional Site No 2 (RAF Wescott)

Second World War Royal Air Force Instructional Site No 2 (RAF Wescott) is visible on historic aerial photographs and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in fields S of the former military airfield and centred at SP 70964 15789, the Instructional Site comprises a sentry box (RAF picket post) that leads to a turret instructional building, link trainer buildings and workshop, W.T. operational instruction centre, instructional block, gunnery and crew procedure centre, bombing teacher building, rest locker and drying rooms, flight offices and crew room, 3 celestial navigation trainers, RAF and WAAF personnel latrines, as well as four brick-built and earth-bermed open-topped blast shelters, all linked by a roadway and path system. By 1947, two of the blast shelters have been demolished and additional military buildings have been constructed that do not appear on the airfield’s 1945 dated Air Ministry Drawing. By 1961 the celestial trainer buildings have been demolished. Between 1961 and 1999 all of the site’s remaining buildings and structures were demolished with the exception of the road, which survives. On aerial photographs taken in 2023, some of the former buildings’ rectangular foundations are still clearly visible outlined in the grass (1-7).