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Swinderby, Lincolnshire

Swinderby / Norton Disney / Witham St Hughes
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Current use : 
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​Website :
1 August 1940
17 December 1993
Quarry / Industry / Housing
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EGXS
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18 July 2022
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AIRFIELD SITE : 360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Swinderby Airfield

360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Swinderby Airfield - 18 July 2022

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Swinderby Airfield


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Dispersal


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Servicing Platform


AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Radio Beacon


AIRFIELD SITE : Airfield Views


AIRFIELD SITE : Barrack Block


AIRFIELD SITE : Battle Headquarters

LOCATED AT : ​53.142191, -0.674546
EDOFBID : ​e01194

AIRFIELD SITE : Control Tower / Local Control Building


AIRFIELD SITE : Decontamination Centre


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Entrance


AIRFIELD SITE : Mechanical Transport Sheds, Offices and Yard


AIRFIELD SITE : Practice Bomb Store & Gas Chamber


AIRFIELD SITE : Ready Use Pyrotechnic Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 02/20


AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 06/24


AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 11/29


AIRFIELD SITE : Signal Square


AIRFIELD SITE : Synthetic Navigation Training Building


AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 03


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 04


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 05


AIRFIELD SITE : Works Services Building & Water Tower


BUILDING 1 : Guard House


BUILDING 3 : Central Heating Station


BUILDING 4 : Fuel Compound


BUILDING 10 : Instructional Centre


BUILDING 11 : Instructional Centre


BUILDING 20 : Technical Latrine


BUILDING 22 : Technical Latrine


BUILDING 25 : ​Night Flying Equipment Store


BUILDING 26 : Control Tower / Watch Office with Met Section​


BUILDING 27 : Fire Tender & Floodlight Trailer Shelter


BUILDING 29 : Hangar / Type 'J' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 30 : Technical Latrine


BUILDING 32 : Hangar / Type 'J' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 56 : Hangar / Type 'J' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 60 : Main Workshops

Last use of this building before the airfield closed was as the Station Cinema.

BUILDING 67 : Parachute Store


BUILDING 72 : Station Headquarters & Offices


BUILDING 83 : Armoury, Photographic Block & AML Bombing Teacher


BUILDING 88 : Hangar / T2 Type Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 89 : Hangar / T2 Type Aircraft Shed


MEMORIAL SITE : 300 and 301 Polish Air Force Squadrons Memorial Bench


MEMORIAL SITE : ABCT Marker Stone


MEMORIAL SITE : Polish Bomber Squadron Trail Information Board


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Swinderby Information Board


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Swinderby Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Swinderby Memorial at the Industrial Estate

HISTORIC RECORD

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Swinderby Memorial at the Industrial Estate


MISCELLANEOUS : RAF Swinderby Sign

​The item is on display at The Newark Aviation Museum
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