RAF Fairford
RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station on the Gloucestershire Wiltshire border. It is currently classified as a standby airfield, not in everyday use. Its most prominent use in recent years has been as a base for US Air Force B52's during the 2003 Iraq War, Operation Allied Force in Yugoslavia during 1999 and the first Gulf War in 1991.
RAF Fairford is one of two Trans Oceanic Abort Landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle in the UK. As well as having a sufficiently long runway for a shuttle landing (the runway is 3 km long), it also has NASA-trained fire and medical crews stationed on the base.
RAF Fairford is also the home of the Royal International Air Tattoo, an annual air display. RIAT is one of the largest airshows in the world, with the 2003 show recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest military airshow ever, with an attendance of 535 aircraft.
The cache is an amo box placed near a path that runs between Marston Meysey and Dunfield. It is about half a mile from either end. A suitable place to park is near the church at Marston Meysey. Alternatively start at Dunfield, walk past the cache to the pub at Marston Meysey and come back along another path that runs roughly parallel north of the first one - about two and a half miles of quite flat terrain.