RAF Fighter Command * No. 9 Group RAF * No. 81 (OTU) Group RAF[1]
Site history
Built
1941 (1941)
In use
1941-1963 (1963)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
30 metres (98 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
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RAF Caistor is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground located 6.2 miles (10.0 km) south east of Brigg, Lincolnshire and 9.1 miles (14.6 km) north west of Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, the site is now used for farming.
RAFCaistor is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground located 6.2 miles (10.0 km) south east of Brigg, Lincolnshire and 9.1 miles (14.6 km) north...
authors list (link) "RAFCaistor", Raf-lincolnshire.info. Retrieved 8 September 2010 "The Wartime Memories Project – RAFCaistor" Archived 10 June 2012...
No. 233 Maintenance Unit RAF at RAF Market Stainton. The airfield's bombs were stored widely spaced along the edge of Caistor High Street to avoid a sequence...
arrangements. RAF Hemswell was also the headquarters for the No. 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites located at RAF Bardney, RAFCaistor, RAF Coleby Grange...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Caistor St Edmund is a village and former civil parish on the River Tas, now in the parish of Caistor St Edmund and Bixley, in the South Norfolk district...
Caistor Grammar School is a selective school with academy status in the English town of Caistor in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The school was...
In 1959 RAF Hemswell became the headquarters for the "No 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites" located at RAF Bardney, RAFCaistor, RAF Ludford Magna...
Kingdom between 1959 and 1963. Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command operated 60 Thor missiles, dispersed to 20 RAF air stations, as part of the British nuclear...
girder bridge, built in 1889, that spans the River Ancholme. The former RAFCaistor is chiefly within the parish, and the concrete bases of three Thor IRBM...
station was returned to RAF control for use as a Fighter Operational Training Unit with Spitfires of No. 53 OTU from Llandow. Caistor and Hibaldstow being...
the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Caistor and Market Rasen, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas...
between the A15 to the east and the A17 to the west, joins the village to RAF Cranwell. The appropriate civil parish is called Cranwell, Brauncewell and...
1915. The RAF Regiment reached in excess of 66,000 personnel and during training was housed at RAF Belton Park, the Regiment's first depot, RAF Folkingham...
Million Minutes. The RAF partly funded French's private education. When her father was stationed at RAF Faldingworth, French attended Caistor Grammar School...
national importance or RAF significance. From 1950[until when?] RAF Coningsby was home to three squadrons of Washingtons, the RAF name for the Boeing B-29...
North. It climbs a hill to meet the B1225, A1173, and A1084 just east of Caistor. The road crosses the Nottingham – Grimsby railway at a level crossing...
The market towns of the Lincolnshire Wolds Louth, Alford, Horncastle, Caistor and Spilsby are also attractive, with several having historically important...
main Roman forts in Lincolnshire were: Ancaster Brant Broughton (Briga) Caistor Broughton (Praetorium) Horncastle (Banovalum) Kirton in Lindsey (Inmedio)...
until April 1996. It follows the Lincolnshire Wolds over the AONB through Caistor, crossing the A46, and Horncastle, crossing the A158. It follows the River...
survived as RAF Holbeach Bombing Range becoming parented to RAF Marham, it continues active service as a practice bombing range for the RAF as well as...
the former Royal Air Force barracks for RAF Woodhall Spa. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of the site of RAF Woodhall Spa, in the civil parish of Tattershall...