RAF Lincolnshire is Ten Years Old!
Updated contact details and opening times for RAF Scampton Heritage Centre.
RAF Orby remained open after the war to train Marconi engineers.
Information about life at RAF Theddlethorpe.
85 Sqn B Flt - life setting up and maintaining Bloodhound RADAR at RAF North Coates.
Did the RAFWaffe aircraft go into storage at RAF Manby after the war?
An index has been added for the oral history which is incorporated on the website for ease of reference of primary materials. These indiv`idual narratives tell the story from the people's perspective not the official historical records.
Oral history added for Iris Burgess, wartime WAAF at Manby.
RAF Faldingworth / 92MU personnel were accommodated at Scampton in 1971.

A comprehensive list of the airfield day dummy and night decoy sites in Lincolnshire has been added, together with individual pages for each site.
Anwick page comprehensively updated with details of units, layout and decoy site for RAF Digby during WWII.
Bottesford page now includes full airfield history and link to 140+ page detailed narrative.
Folkingham page has been fleshed out to include airfield history narrative.
Kelstern page now includes a limited airfield history.
Further detail added to the Mere page, a Y-station/HF-DF station for Waddington.
Metheringham now has details of a project to rebuild the air traffic tower.
The list of locations referenced has been tidied up and some more internal links and map reference added. Includes Essendine, planned but never built.
Killingholme has had further detail of its brief history updated.
1064 pages now on site.

Added a page to help promote the Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial and its fund-raising campaign.
Added an index to crashes covered on the website for ease of location. Includes Date : Sqn : Stn : Reg : Type : Crew : Location : Narrative
100 Sqn Lancaster MkIII ED-549 HW-S crashed 5 Mar 1943 and was recently commemorated.

The homepage has been updated to remove most of the text and include twitter and facebook feeds from our pages on those social networks. This makes it easier to integrate new content or publicise related events in Lincolnshire in a rapid and relevant way. If you haven't already please follow/like us on:
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Version number has been advanced to 2.5 from 2.4 to reflect the social networking integration.

Slight amendment to RAF Wellingore.
Addition of detail to the Butterfly Bomb narrative in RAF Digby history 1941. 1917 also tweaked. Summary military biography of d'Albiac added. Current day page added to the history as well.
Addition of a 1927 crash from 2FTS RAF Digby and request for further details
Added a page to the history section to list and explain the various mission types such as RAMROD RHUBARB, CIRCUS.

A facebook module has been added to the homepage to allow facebook users to leave comments directly on the site. An RAF-Lincolnshire on FB page has also been added to Facebook and you can see comments and updates from the wall on the homepage. If you are a facebook user please 'like' the site and 'like' our page on facebook too!

Many minor amendments and additions have been made to the site over the past twelve months. These include:

• Hemswell and Normanby updated with information on Canberra operations and the transmitter masts.
• Kirton in Lindsey photos of the mess staff and members in 1942.
• Detail of Theddlethorpe range targets and operations.
• A concise history of the RAF College Cranwell Football Team in the Inter-war Years.
• The RAF Digby history is being restructured into separate years for easier navigation.
• Recollections of LACW 2149490 Joan Hatchett who was stationed at Metheringham.
• Strubby recollections of Vic Croft who served as an LAC in the DF Truck for 12 GCA Unit in 1949.

Many others are indicated by the recent 'Updated' date on the left hand side of the page.

Bomber Command Appeal added to homepage

September 2010: Celebrating Lincolnshire's contribution to the Battle of Britain and the enduring air defence of the United Kingdom.

Read about Bomber County's less-known contribution to the Battle of Britain and the defence of the Midlands, including:

• Chain Home Radar sites (Ingolmels, Humberston and surviving mast at Stenigot),
• Fighter Command represented by 12 Group Sectors based around the RAF Digby and RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey ops rooms (Digby's is now a leading museum),
• the 1940 fighter airfields at Coleby Grange, Wellingore, joined later in the war by Hibaldstow
• Front-line fighter squadrons including Digby: 29 Sqn, 46 Sqn, 151 Sqn, 611 Sqn and Kirton in Lindsey: 74 Sqn, 85 Sqn, 222 Sqn, 253 Sqn, 264 Sqn and 616 Sqn.
• USAAF at Goxhill
• the latter-day fighter bases at Binbrook and Coningsby.
• Balloon Command defending Lincoln city and the industrial areas on the Humber, through 842 Sqn 17 Balloon Centre detachments at Grimsby Fish Dock and East Halton.
• The ongoing air defence mission at RAF Coningsby, home of the Quick Reaction Alert, RAF Scampton (1 Air Co-ordination Centre) and RAF Waddington (8 Sqn E-3D Air Warning and Co-ordination System).

1001 pages.
Version 2.4 - additional content and conceptual restructuring of some areas.

The story of the HMS Lancastria disaster. I have added a (very) short item and will bolster it.
151 Sqn, Ashby Hall.
RAF Digby - Scopwick CGWC graves listed.
RAF Digby-related crashes in Lincolnshire listed (partly!)