Originally Posted by
Pypard
Yatesbury is close by: two airfields in WW1, briefly (very) gliding and civil flying between the wars and Bristol/EFTS flying from 1936 before it became a fully-fledged RAF training base with flying elements at the outbreak of war. It doesn't have continuous history as a flying site, but microlights now fly from part of what was the eastern airfield from 1916. I doubt many sites can boast even an interrupted 105-year flying history like that.
FARNBOROUGH!!
(First used for powered flight 1908 and for balloons and airships before that.)