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About: RAF Swinderby

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Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The station closed on 17 December 1993.

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  • Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The station closed on 17 December 1993. The Explorer Scouts unit based in the village of Swinderby, is named EGXS, a reference to the ICAO location indicator of the airfield. Their badge includes the layout of Swinderby's runways. (en)
  • RAF Swinderby – baza lotnicza RAF znajdująca się koło miejscowości Swinderby, ok. 14 km wzdłuż szosy A46 na północny zachód od Lincoln (hrabstwo Lincolnshire) w kierunku na Newark-on-Trent. Podczas II wojny światowej była wykorzystywana jako baza bombowców, w tym również przez polskie dywizjony bombowe 300 i 301. Baza została zamknięta 17 grudnia 1993. (pl)
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  • Former RAF Swinderby during 2008. (en)
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  • Former RAF Swinderby during 2008. (en)
  • Haec porta moenia viri (en)
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  • Sold in 1995, the technical site is now an industrial estate and domestic site became the village of Witham St Hughs. The airfield remains and is disused. (en)
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  • EGXS (en)
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  • Location in Lincolnshire (en)
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  • Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988. . (en)
  • Halpenny, B.B. Action Stations: Wartime Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands v. 2. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1981. . (en)
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  • RAF Swinderby – baza lotnicza RAF znajdująca się koło miejscowości Swinderby, ok. 14 km wzdłuż szosy A46 na północny zachód od Lincoln (hrabstwo Lincolnshire) w kierunku na Newark-on-Trent. Podczas II wojny światowej była wykorzystywana jako baza bombowców, w tym również przez polskie dywizjony bombowe 300 i 301. Baza została zamknięta 17 grudnia 1993. (pl)
  • Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The station closed on 17 December 1993. (en)
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