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  • RAF Swinderby
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  • Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
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  • RAF Swinderby
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  • Asphalt
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Name
  • RAF Swinderby
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  • Asphalt
Type
  • Military
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  • Haec porta moenia viri
  • RAF Swinderby in April 1941, looking south-south-west
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  • 49
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Reference
  • Halpenny, B.B. Action Stations: Wartime Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands v. 2. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1981. ISBN 0-85059-484-7.
  • Jefford, C.G, MBE,BA ,RAF . RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988. ISBN 1-84037-141-2.
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  • Lincolnshire
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  • Location in Lincolnshire
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  • GB
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  • N
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  • 1940
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  • RAF Swinderby aerial photograph April 1941 IWM HU 93063.jpg
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  • airport
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  • Swinderby, Lincolnshire
abstract
  • Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.