RAF Spilsby

England — County: Lincolnshire

53.1603, 0.1678 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Spilsby opened in Lincolnshire in 1943 as a Bomber Command station in No. 5 Group. It was home to Nos. 207 and 44 Squadrons, which flew Avro Lancasters from the airfield on the strategic offensive against Germany. Flying ended after the war, apart from a brief Cold War reuse in the 1950s; the airfield has been dismantled, leaving cropmarks, a memorial and a few surviving buildings amid the farmland.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Spilsby — Wikipedia and Spilsby — 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

RAF Spilsby: Building 733 - Sergeants' & Airmen's ablutions block on Domestic site No 2
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A sign next to the memorial detailing the site layout and giving additional information.
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RAF Spilsby Operations Block
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Surviving T2 Hangar
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