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#RAFLincolnshire
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Alma Park
Anwick
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Binbrook
Blankney Hall
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Boston Wyberton Fen
Bottesford
Bracebridge Heath
Braceby
Buckminster
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Caistor
Cockthorne
Coleby Grange
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Cranwell
Cuxwold
Digby
Donna Nook
Dunholme Lodge
East Halton
East Kirkby
Elsham Wolds
Faldingworth
Fiskerton
Folkingham
Freiston
Fulbeck
Gosberton
Goxhill
Grantham
Greenland Top
Grimsby
Grimsthorpe Park
Harlaxton
Hemswell
Hibaldstow
Holbeach
Humberston
Immingham
Ingham
Ingoldmels
Kelstern
Killingholme
Kirmington
Kirton in Lindsey
Langtoft
Leadenham
Lincoln West Common
Ludford Magna
Manby
Market Deeping
Market Stainton
Mere
Metheringham
Moorby
Morton Hall
New Holland
Nocton Hall
Normanby
North Coates
North Killingholme
North Witham
Norton Disney
Orby
Rauceby
Saltby
Sandtoft
Scampton
Skegness
Skellingthorpe
Skendleby
South Carlton
South Elkington
South Witham
Spilsby
Spitalgate
Stenigot
Strubby
Sturgate
Sutton Bridge
Swinderby
Swinstead
Theddlethorpe
Tydd St Mary
Waddington
Wainfleet
Waltham (Grimsby)
Wellingore
Wickenby
Wigsley
Winterton
Woodhall Spa
Updated : 1 Oct 13
Opened: Summer 1943
Subordinate to 14 Base: 16 Dec 1943
Closed: 1972
Airfield code :: FH
ICAO Code ::
Airfield call sign :: RIMER
Squadrons based here:
1667 HCU :: Oct 1943 - Feb 1944
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300 (Polish) Sqn :: Mar 1944 - Jan 1947 |
305
(Polish) Sqn :: 1 Oct 1946 - 6 Jan 1947 |
92 MU :: 1957 - 1972
RAF Faldingworth entered service life as Toft Grange decoy airfield protecting Hemswell, later becoming a satellite airfield of RAF Lindholme. On 16 Dec 1943 it became a satellite of RAF Ludford Magna under 14 Base.
92 MU moved to Faldingworth from Wickenby in 1957 to store the V-Force's H Bombs and resembled a high security prison. A storage and maintenance facility for the Blue Danube nuclear bombs. The scattering of low-lying buildings around the site did not betray its role as most of the activity was carried out underground. The facilties included an underground weapons range.
In 1971 SAC Tony Elliott was stationed at Faldingworth but billetted at Scampton.
"I was an SAC in the Transport section, my pal and me were working the night shift from Monday-Friday morning & slept in the Hanger that remains there to this day, we would pick up all the Civilians from Market Raisen,and the officers at the start of their duties."
92 MU closed in 1972 after the Royal Navy took over the nuclear deterrence role from 1969 with Polaris.
The site was later utilised by Bmarc, a subsidiary of Swiss weapons manufacturer Oerlikon-Buehrle. Amongst their weapons demonstrations carried out on site they utilised the underground range to demonstrate the power of their canon by firing it into a two-feet thick slab of steel bulkhead which had been recovered from the Tirpitz.
There is now a memorial to RAF Faldingworth at the eastern end of the remains of runway 26; plaques, a memorial book and a stained glass window are on display in the village chuch :: memorials page.
There is also a memorials website at http://sites.google.com/site/faldingworthmemorials/
RAF Faldingworth
also featured in BBC
coverage of a new exhibition commemorating Polish airmen in World
War II which was unveiled at Grantham Museum in early August 2012.
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