The club was originally formed in December 1937 as the Oxford City and University Gliding Club and began operating at Cumnor Meadow in the Spring of 1938. The original site is now on the bed of Farmoor reservoir. Later the same year, the club operated from a site between Aston Rowant and Lewknor, close to the Lambert Arms pub, where the members made good use of the Chiltern ridge. The famous gliding pioneer Robert Kronfeld was the first CFI.

On the outbreak of war in 1939, all recreational aviation ceased, and the club was eventually reformed at Kidlington in 1951. An increase in powered aircraft activity at Kidlington resulted in the club relocating to RAF Weston on the Green in 1956. The airfield also has an interesting history and dates back to 1918. Is an appropriate location, as military glider pilots were trained here during the war using Hotspur gliders. For a while the site was shared with the Chilterns Gliding Club, an RAF club now based at RAF Halton.

The airfield, looking south

It is believed that there may have also been some gliding activity at RAF Weston on the Green prior to the war.