RAF Bisterne

{{Short description|WWII airbase in Hampshire, England}}

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{{Infobox military installation

| name = RAF Bisterne
USAAF Station AAF-415

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| location = Bisterne, Hampshire

| country = England

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| caption = Aerial Photo of Bisterne Airfield, 22 May 1944. More than 50 P-47 Thunderbolts of the 371st Fighter Group are dispersed along the perimeter loop.

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| type = Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground

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| pushpin_map_caption = Shown within Hampshire

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| ownership = Air Ministry

| operator = Royal Air Force
United States Army Air Forces

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| code = BS

| built = {{Start date|1944}}

| used = 1944 - {{End date|1944}}

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| r2-number = 09/27

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Royal Air Force Bisterne or more simply RAF Bisterne is a former Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground in Hampshire, England. The airfield is located in the hamlet of Bisterne approximately {{convert|2|mi|km}} south of Ringwood.

Opened in March 1944, Bisterne was a prototype for the type of temporary Advanced Landing Ground type airfield that would be built in France after D-Day, when the need advanced landing fields would become urgent as the Allied forces moved east across France and Germany. It was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a fighter airfield. It was closed late in the summer of 1944.

Today the airfield is a mixture of agricultural fields with no recognizable remains.