Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby is a former Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed...
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Grade 2 (good), in its 2012 Ofsted inspection. Swinderby is close to the now closed RAF airfield, RAF Swinderby, which holds a bi-monthly antique and collectors...
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RAF Swinderby in 1940, being used by 300 and 301 Polish squadrons and later, 1661 HCU of No. 5 Group. The station was declared inactive in 1959. RAF Winthorpe...
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School RAF Biggin Hill Personnel Selection Training School RAF Swinderby Elementary Flying Training School — Chipmunk T10 elementary trainer RAF School...
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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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command of 5 Group in October 1943. Group HQ was moved to Morton Hall, at RAF Swinderby in November 1943, Using the Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight (SABS)...
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be carried out at RAF Swinderby. During 1967 the gliders of No. 643 Gliding School RAF Air Training Corps (ATC) moved in from RAF Kirton in Lindsey....
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Group was primarily based at airfields in north Lincolnshire, like RAF Swinderby. During 1940–45, the group included substantial numbers of Polish and...
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the RAF School of Recruit Training to be moved from RAF Swinderby to RAF Halton in July 1993, where it has been ever since. In the year 2004–2005, RAF Halton...
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Commodore Bruce Benstead, the last Station Commander at RAF North Luffenham. Recruits from RAF Swinderby completed their fieldcraft training at this base in...
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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. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron (redirect from No. 300 (Polish) Squadron RAF)
the crew members were in late 1942 attached to the RAF Tempsford based No. 138 (Special) Squadron RAF as the newly formed Flight C operating the Handley...
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first female trainee pilots in the RAF. She was promoted flight lieutenant on 15 January 1992. She went to RAF Swinderby for elementary flying training,...
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redesignating No. 203 Advanced Flying School RAF then was disbanded at RAF Swinderby. 203 AFS was formed at RAF Keevil on 1 July 1947 by redesignating No...
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Nottinghamshire.[citation needed] During the Second World War, RAF Swinderby (later renamed RAF Norton Disney) was home to No 93 Maintenance Unit (No 93 MU)...
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1 Squadron RAF Regiment No. II Squadron RAF Regiment No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment (C-UAS) No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No...
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the RAF, until this moved to RAF Hereford and later again to RAF Swinderby. It was also the home of the Central Gliding School which moved to RAF Syerston...
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moving to RAF Swinderby on 22 August 1940 accompanied by No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron which formed 21 days later and left for Swinderby 6 days later...
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administrator in November 1941 (Service No 2027172). While serving at RAF Swinderby she answered an appeal on the noticeboard for linguists, and was recruited...
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1918–1919 RAF Waddington: 1937–1940 RAF Lindholme: 1940–1941 RAF Swinderby: 1941–1942 RAF Skellingthorpe: 1942–1945 RAF Sturgate: 1945–1946 RAF Waddington:...
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Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
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Graeme Spark (section RAF career)
in the RAF. Spark joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1985, undergoing his airman and trade training as a RAF Police NCO at RAF Swinderby and RAF Newton...
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Group, as a result of which No.5 Group moved its No.50 Squadron to RAF Swinderby. From RAF Syerston, No.1 Group moved in two of the Polish squadrons under...
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old Fosse Way (bar bypasses). The A46 passes the former airfield of RAF Swinderby. The road becomes the boundary of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire for...
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the RAF Officer Training College after the formation of the RAF in April 1918. RAF Swinderby was a Polish-manned RAF station and from 1964, the RAF's main...
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Operational Training Unit, RAF Cottesmore, he was posted to No. 50 Squadron operating the Handley Page Hampden at RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, on 27 August...
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No. 455 Squadron RAAF (redirect from No. 455 Squadron RAF)
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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Lübeck Airport (redirect from RAF Lubeck)
Regiment, formed Swinderby April 1942; moved to Hornchurch 2 June". UK National Archives. Retrieved 12 April 2023. "2734 Field Squadron RAF Regiment, Redhill...
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List of Reserve flying schools (redirect from No. 1 Reserve Flying School RAF)
1999, p. 64. Lake 1999, p. 171. Lake 1999, p. 172. Lake 1999, p. 173. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6....
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the Group absorbed No. 91 Group RAF, from RAF Bomber Command, taking over HQ for No. 91 Group, Morton Hall, Swinderby in Lincolnshire. On 24 June 1953...
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