RAF Swinderby

[Gangeox]

Visited very recently with Neosea, good explore first one of three sites!

RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force Bomber Command airfield opened in 1940,one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s.

Under the command of Number 1 Group, Swinderby came under the auspices of RAF Bomber Command and housed numbers 300 and 301 squadrons, mainly Polish manned initially flying the Fairey Battle. Later squadrons would use such diverse aircraft as the Handley Page Hampden, the Vickers Wellington, Avro Manchester and finally Avro Lancasters.

In 1964, Swinderby changed its role to that of recruit training, responsible for the basic training of all enlisted RAF personnel prior to their trade training.

In 1995 the station was put up for sale to commercial development and the airfield plays host to semi-regular events including antique fairs.

Many buildings, hangars and the air traffic control tower remain in evidence along with acres of concrete runways and taxiways.



































Battle Command:

[BB]

Cool stuff there. interesting place

[boxfrenzy]

That looks a great place to visit. Were there any controls in the control tower?

[Neosea]

Cool photos Gangeox, will sort my photos out later

[Gangeox]

Thanks for the comments, plenty to see.

That looks a great place to visit. Were there any controls in the control tower?

Afraid not all cleaned out.

[oneandsix]

nicely done there,looks in very good condition,thanks for posting

[ERNIE99_UK]

Thats a nice intact raf station by the looks of it. Bet it was busy in ww2.

[KingElvis]

Another cool abandoned RAF base, I like the control tower lots.

Great stuff.

[wolfism]

That looks well worth seeing … AFAIK, a lot of post-war basic training was done at Swinderby, so thousand of aircrew must have been through its portals …

[sqwasher]

Blimey lots of buildings etc left...good report & pics!