RAF Bomber Command * No. 5 Group RAF * No. 7 (HCU) Group RAF RAF Flying Training Command * No. 21 Group RAF
Site history
Built
1941 (1941)/42
Built by
Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd
In use
February 1942 - July 1958 (1958)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
7 metres (23 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
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Royal Air Force Wigsley, also known as RAF Wigsley, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 7.3 miles (11.7 km) east of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire and 7.6 miles (12.2 km) west of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
Royal Air Force Wigsley, also known as RAFWigsley, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 7.3 miles (11.7 km) east of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire...
Lincoln. To the south-west of the village are the remains of R.A.F. Wigsley airfield. Wigsley is one of the Thankful Villages – those rare places that were...
transferring to RAF Wyton in order to become part of the fledgling Pathfinder Force. This departure resulted in No. 83 CF moving to RAFWigsley, where it was...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
more simply RAF Swinderby is a former Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion...
operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was part of the trio of large twin-engine bombers procured for the RAF, joining the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley...
Squadron RAAF (also flying Hampdens), however this squadron moved to RAFWigsley shortly afterwards. The 50 Squadron Hampdens were replaced with Avro...
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