RAF Staverton was a Royal Air Force station near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
An airfield previously existed at Down Hatherley, and plans were in place pre-war to develop the new site. The RAF took over the site as a training school RAF Training from 10 September 1939 until August 1946. Flying training was conducted at the site on Tiger Moths, but for 18 months during construction the practical element of the course had to be undertaken at the relief landing ground at RAF Worcester.
No. 6 Air Observers Navigation School was also based at Staverton.
The Ministry of Aircraft Production Guard Dog School was formed in late 1942, located at Woodfold in Down Hatherley. In 1946 the unit, by now called the RAF Police Dog Training School, moved from Woodfold to RAF Staverton. In February 1951, the School left RAF Staverton and moved to RAF Netheravon.
During WW2, it was a satellite strip of Staverton that hosted the first flight of the Gloster 1 jet aircraft. Various testing took place at Staverton, including a plan for Lancasters to tow Spitfires from their bases to targets such as Tokyo. This plan of course was not needed following the surrender of the Japanese after two A-Bomb attacks.
In civil usage the site was known as Staverton Airport and is now called Gloucestershire Airport.