Post War

The airfield fell into dereliction in the late 1940's. In 1953 it was reactivated under No.1 Flying Training School, Morton in Marsh, training pilots on single engine Harvards and Percival Prentices. But at the end of the Korean War, Edgehill became surplus to requirement and closed as an RAF station.

In 1956 the original owners were given the option of buying the airfield back. They had to pay at the going rate and were given a 99-year lease. The Oxfordshire Ironstone Company owned the mineral and extraction rites, (this became British Steel, so is now part of the privatised conglomerate). It is worth noting that although the farm still owns the crop layer, the mining company still has the rite to mine anywhere on the airfield provided it is returned to its previous use.

In the fifties and sixties, there was some light aircraft use and occasional glider launching. However Edgehill became an important site for a totally different reason - Go Karting. 5000 people attended the first meeting of the Banbury Kart Club in February 1960 and the club held part of the World Karting Championships during 1962. The Kart club (now called Shenington Kart Club) became one of the more important tracks in the UK - many famous drivers including Nigel Mansell, Johnny Herbert and David Coulthard have raced there and it has produced many other famous karting and motor racing drivers. The circuit is now registered as a Grade 3 heritage motor racing venue.

In the 1970's Automotive Products of Leamington built an oval banked test track for testing clutch and braking systems at the north end of runway 17.

The airfield was quarried for hardcore to build the M40 and is now a great deal smaller than its original size - the third hard runway and the oval test track have been quarried. Quarrying still goes on around the area and produces some of the most sought after material for road building.

The airfield was also temporarily used by Coventry Gliding Club (now the Soaring Centre at Husbands Bosworth).

Although new buildings and hangers have been erected, runways quarried and resurfaced, there are still a variety of wartime buildings and concrete pans in a fairly derelict state but still recognisable around the airfield and local area and much of the original runways and peri-tracks can still be made out.