Station briefing
About this museum
Upper Heyford is the Cold War preserved by accident: a vast ex-USAF F-111 base with hardened shelters and untouched buildings, toured by volunteers who remember the alert pads live.
Sortie notes
Pre-book the airfield tours (~3 hours); the heritage centre anchors it.
“Great place to get a sense of the cold war era!”— Darron, visitor report
Order of battle
Airframe checklist
No preserved airframes are on public display here.
This is an aviation-history, memorial or archive collection rather than an aircraft collection.
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2 · source 3. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Visit
Location & contact
- Address
- Bicester OX25 5BX
- Phone
- 01869 221446
- Website
- www.upperheyfordheritage.co.uk/
- Gazetteer
- SE-15 on the situation map