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Alma Park
Anwick
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Heath
Belton Park
Binbrook
Blankney Hall
Blyton
Boston Wyberton Fen
Bottesford
Bracebridge Heath
Braceby
Buckminster
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Cockthorne
Coleby Grange
Coningsby
Cranwell
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Digby
Donna Nook
Dunholme Lodge
East Halton
East Kirkby
Elsham Wolds
Faldingworth
Fiskerton
Folkingham
Freiston
Fulbeck
Gosberton
Goxhill
Grantham
Great Limber
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
Scopwick
Sibsey
Skegness
Skellingthorpe
Skendleby
South Carlton
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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: 2 Sep 05
Opened: ??
Reopened: 1959
Closed: ??
Units based here:
3 RAF Regt Depot :: - 1946 -
223 Sqn :: Dec 1959 - Aug 1963
Folkingham, Station 484 was a daylight dummy and Q-site decoy for Grantham. In early days, RAF Folkingham served as a decoy or fake for RAF Spitalgate. During the day there were dummy planes and lots of activity. During the night it was a Q site or night time decoy (with dummy lighting fitted) that successfully attracted the Luftwaffe.
RAF Folkingham was a Troop Carrier airfield of the 82nd. The 82nd's Lincolnshire airfields were RAF Fulbeck, RAF Folkingham, RAF Barkston Heath and RAF Saltby.
Folkingham was also 3 RAF Regt Depot after the war.
BRM racing motors made use of Folkingham's empty runways in in the 1950s test their cars, until the arrival of THOR. They were displaced to RAF North Witham.
RAF Folkingham later served as a post-war Thor missile base with 3 IRBM launchers under 223 (SM) Sqn. These were subordinated to the North Luffenham Wing rather than the Hemswell Wing. 223 reformed at Folkingham as a Thor strategic missile squadron on 1 Dec 1959, disbanding on 23 Aug 1963. A local historian has written his own account :: click here.
Today little remains of Folkingham's runways and buildings, now used as vehicle compound of Nelson M Green & Sons Ltd. Little of Folkingham's later incarnations survives, although there are remnants of the airfield buried in nearby Temple Wood, they date from the site's many earlier incarnations. All that remains of Project Emily are three sites with a characteristic ground signature on the Folkingham side of the airfield.
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