Royal Air Force Wigsley, also known as RAF Wigsley, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 7.3 miles (11.7 km) east of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire...
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Lincoln. To the south-west of the village are the remains of R.A.F. Wigsley airfield. Wigsley is one of the Thankful Villages – those rare places that were...
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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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transferring to RAF Wyton in order to become part of the fledgling Pathfinder Force. This departure resulted in No. 83 CF moving to RAF Wigsley, where it was...
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materialise until July 1943, when he was sent to 1654 Conversion Unit, RAF Wigsley, near Newark-on-Trent, where he flew his first operational mission as...
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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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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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more simply RAF Swinderby is a former Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion...
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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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No. 455 Squadron RAAF (redirect from No. 455 Squadron RAF)
to the UK, other Commonwealth personnel, drawn mainly from the RAF, concentrated RAF Swinderby, in Lincolnshire and on 6 June 1941 the squadron was formally...
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was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was part of the trio of large twin-engine bombers procured for the RAF, joining the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley...
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Squadron RAAF (also flying Hampdens), however this squadron moved to RAF Wigsley shortly afterwards. The 50 Squadron Hampdens were replaced with Avro...
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manufactured by the Austin Motor Company from No. 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF Wigsley in Nottinghamshire took part in a night navigational exercise. The pilot...
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