GCHQ
GCHQ: Helicopter landing site
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Location: N of the A40, 1.25nm NNE to NE of junction 11 on the M.5, and 2nm W of Cheltenham town centre
Period of operation: ?
NOTES: GCHQ is the Government Communications Headquarters and was founded on the 1st November 1919. Since then of course the business of intercepting communications has been transformed beyond all recognition. Quite possibly there is no requirement at all for senior people in the armed services or the government to make visits by helicopter - the world has moved on.
Back in the Falklands war period, from April to June 1982, for example, almost daily helicopter flights from the military headquarters in Northwood in the NW suburbs of London, were being conducted.
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