Royal Air Force Winthorpe, or more simply RAF Winthorpe, is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-east of Newark in Nottinghamshire...
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Royal Air Force station, RAF Winthorpe. The airfield was mainly used for training Lancaster crews. Listed buildings in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire "Civil...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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Search. Retrieved 23 April 2013. RAF Museum. "Individual History XL318" (PDF). Retrieved 27 November 2015. Avro Vulcan B2. RAF Museum. Retrieved: 27 November...
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No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph...
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A17 road (England) (section Winthorpe to Sleaford)
roundabout, with access to the A1. This section passes over the former RAF Winthorpe (now Newark Air Museum, and there is a roundabout for Newlink Business...
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at Winthorpe, near Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. The museum contains a variety of aircraft. The airfield was known as RAF Winthorpe during...
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Poland in 1993, but his former grave in Newark remains as a monument. RAF Winthorpe was opened in 1940 and declared inactive in 1959. The site is now the...
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List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF)
operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
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Boeing Chinook (UK variants) (redirect from RAF Chinook)
operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside...
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Newark, Nottinghamshire. It makes up 200 acres (0.81 km2) of the former RAF Winthorpe Airfield which was purchased in 1964 by the Newark and Nottinghamshire...
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Battle aircraft of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron, then operating from RAF Winthorpe, was returning from a raid on Boulogne. Control of the aircraft was...
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No. 7 Group RAF (7 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group active in the latter part of the First World War, during the 1920s and also in the Second...
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1935, runs through the village. The A1 bypass dates from 1963. When RAF Winthorpe opened in the late 1940s its married quarters were built at Coddington...
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1942 it was taken over by the Air Ministry to accommodate airmen from RAF Winthorpe. In 2014 it was sold to become a Zizzi pizza restaurant with other residential...
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responsible for his early upbringing. Johnson attended Winthorpe Primary School in the village of Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire until the age of 11. Through a bursary...
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Suffolk. WV606 – Provost T.1 on static display at the Newark Air Museum in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire. WV679 – Provost T.1 on static display at the Wellesbourne...
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though the crews were presented with a greater chance to escape. At RAF Winthorpe the Ju 88s attacked bombers illuminated by the landing lights. Leutnant...
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Squadron RAF No. 22 Squadron RAF No. 28 Squadron RAF No. 32 Squadron RAF No. 60 Squadron RAF No. 72 Squadron RAF No. 78 Squadron RAF No. 84 Squadron RAF No...
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Butlins as entering Ingoldmells from the north and from Skegness and Winthorpe before reaching Fantasy Island to the left. The number 1 Chapel St Leonards...
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previous road from Spalding to Stamford becoming the A1175. A17 A1/A46 at Winthorpe, near Newark-on-Trent A47 near King's Lynn Originally started in Swaffham...
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Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) "Sculptor and Artist worked here 1913-1914" 25 Winthorpe Road Putney SW15 2LW 2017 Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) "Poet and novelist...
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The road bypasses Dunholme to the south then it passes close to the former RAF Dunholme Lodge. It passes the headquarters for Lincolnshire Police on the...
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Gloucestershire.[citation needed] One is on display at the Newark Air Museum in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire.[citation needed] One is on display at the Shuttleworth...
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based at RAF Waddington. In September 1938 he married Dorothy née Franks at Winthorpe. In January 1939, Morrison resigned his commission in the RAF and subsequently...
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Manfield, Nottingham, (A52), (A617), (A612) A17 – Sleaford B6166 – Newark Winthorpe Interchange/ Brownshill Roundabout A46 – Leicester, Lorry Park, Southwell...
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Per Hour Speed Restriction) Order (SI 2010/1273) The A46 Trunk Road (Winthorpe to Thorpe on the Hill) (Temporary Restriction and Prohibition of Traffic)...
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mid-15th century. Opened in 1944, RAF Strubby was the most easterly of Lincolnshire's airfields. Operating from RAF Strubby were: 280 Squadron – May 1944...
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(Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order (SI 2011/420) The A46 Trunk Road (Winthorpe to Thorpe on the Hill) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic in Laybys) Order...
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