# Shenington Gliding Club, Shenington, United Kingdom

**Shenington Gliding Club** is a small airport in Shenington, England, United Kingdom. It opened in Oct 1941. It is operated by Royal Air Force.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0416

## At a glance

- Type: Small airport
- Operator: Royal Air Force
- Serves: Shenington, England, United Kingdom
- Opened: Oct 1941 (Wikipedia)
- Coordinates: 52.0843, -1.4736
- Time zone: UTC+0/+1 · Europe/London
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenington_Airfield (1 language)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131309764
- Weather station: EGTK
- Ident: GB-0416

## Timeline

- Oct 1941: Shenington Gliding Club opens.

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Age | Opened 1941 | =1,548 of 15,079 | =581 in Europe | =93 in GB |

## Nearby airports

- [GB-0419](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0419.md) Shotteswell/Banbury Airfield · 6.6 km / 4.1 mi
- [GB-0298](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0298.md) Green Farm Airstrip · 9.8 km / 6.1 mi
- [GB-0503](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0503.md) Glebe Farm Airstrip · 15 km / 9.3 mi
- [EGBW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egbw.md) Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield · 15 km / 9.4 mi
- [GB-0921](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0921.md) Home Farm Airstrip · 17 km / 11 mi
- [GB-0502](https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0502.md) Poplars Farm Airstrip · 17 km / 11 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Shenington Airfield”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shenington_Airfield&oldid=1353447835), revision of 10 May 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/gb-0416/data