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RAF Spitalgate
Westland Lysander Mark I of No. 5 Group Communications Flight at RAF Spitalgate
Originally named RFC Grantham and later RAF Grantham. Decommissioned and closed in 1976. Flying training establishment and Flying Training Command.
Royal Air Force Spitalgate or more simply RAF Spitalgate formerly known as RFC Grantham and RAF Grantham was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station, located 2 mi (3.2 km) south east of the centre of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England fronting onto the main A52 road.
Royal Air Force Spitalgate or more simply RAFSpitalgate formerly known as RFC Grantham and RAF Grantham was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force...
site became known as RAF Uxbridge. The RAF School of Education moved into Hillingdon House from RAFSpitalgate on 10 November 1958, and the station was...
at RAF Henlow from 1965 to 1980, then merged with the Royal Air Force College Cranwell Another Officer Cadet Training Unit was at RAFSpitalgate A Women's...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
close in 2028. The barracks were established on the site of the former RAFSpitalgate airbase in October 1976, as the new Central Volunteer Headquarters for...
1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
No. 23 Group RAF was reformed as No 23 (Training) Group in Inland Area on 12 Apr 1926, at RAFSpitalgate, by re-numbering No. 3 Group RAF. Its stations...
undertaken. In 1942 RAF Harlaxton reopened as a satellite field and relief landing ground for the flying training squadron posted to RAFSpitalgate, Grantham under...
originally trained close to RAF Ringway and later in Upper Largo in Scotland. It was finally based in Lincolnshire, close to RAFSpitalgate (Grantham) where it...
joined the WRAF on 28 April 1967 and accomplished her basic training at RAFSpitalgate in Grantham, Lincolnshire. At the time of her murder, Ellis was working...
left for RAF Gamston in Nottinghamshire. At the same time that the OTU was moving out, thirty-seven Beauforts of No.12 (P)AFU from RAFSpitalgate moved in...
which was established at RAF Jurby was an amalgamation of the Officer Cadet Training Units from RAF Millom and RAFSpitalgate. Initially intended to be...
Glider School. No. 1515 BAT Flight left for RAFSpitalgate in 1946 and the glider squadron relocated to RAF Barkston Heath in 1947. The station was mothballed...
Harrowby parish include the Officer's Mess of the Second World War RAFSpitalgate, and buildings and structures within Belton Park. The Grade II* listed...
sergeant, he was billeted at RFC Station Grantham in Lincolnshire (renamed RAFSpitalgate in 1942) on 21 January 1918, when a warplane crash-landed from a height...
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