RAF Strubby

England — County: Lincolnshire

53.3039, 0.1667 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Strubby opened near the Lincolnshire coast in 1943 and served first under Coastal Command, its Bristol Beaufighters and Vickers Warwicks — including a Canadian squadron — flying anti-shipping and air-sea rescue sorties over the North Sea. It then passed to Bomber Command, with Nos. 227 and 619 Squadrons flying Avro Lancasters on the final offensive against Germany. After the war it became a training and air-warfare station until 1972; a gliding club has used the site since 1978.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Strubby — Wikipedia and Strubby — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Field and Hangar. The bump on the horizon is the roof of an old aircraft hangar on the former RAF Strubby airfield.
ⓘ licence & creditMichael Patterson / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Field_and_Hangar_-_geograph.org.uk_-_233947.jpgView source & full licence →
Control Tower at Strubby airfield Now a private residence on the former RAF station at Strubby. I am indebted to Andy F for the following link showing a little of the past history of the place in question. http://www.controltowers.co.uk/S/Strubby.htm
ⓘ licence & creditRichard Hoare / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Control_Tower_at_Strubby_airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1603363.jpgView source & full licence →

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