RAF Shellingford was a Royal Air Force station located approximately 4 miles east of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It occupied land adjacent to the A417 road, between the villages of Stanford in the Vale and Shellingford. RAF Shellingford was opened for use as a practice landing field for Elementary Flying Training in 1931, the aerodrome being of grass. It opened for night flying during the Second World War on 25 September 1941.
No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAF were located at RAF Shellingford with some 56 de Havilland Tiger Moths and a communal site was established for all ranks at nearby Stanford in the Vale. British Army pilots trained here as glider pilots from 1943, the base being one of many assisting in the training of Airspeed Horsa Glider pilots in preparation for the D-Day landings of 1944.
Much of the former aerodrome has now been given over to quarrying activities, where significant sand and gravel deposits continue to be extracted today. Some of the buildings still exist and can been seen from the road.