Close to RAF Base Traditional Cache
La Lunatica: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Suzanne
La Lunatica
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This Cache is our third and is a short walk from where you can park your car, there is a foot path most of the way, then a bit of long grass to get to the Cache and can get a little muddy after it has been raining.
It will show how Swinderby is changing from a 1940's Air Base to a popular new Housing Estate.
Please keep an eye out for Dog Walking Mugglers & Children out Playing.
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. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
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 now plays host to semi-regular events.
In 2009 nearly all the remaining buildings were demolished.
Only 2 Hangars and the Air Traffic Control Tower remain in evidence along with acres of Concrete Runways and Taxiways.
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