RAF Swinderby | |||||||||||
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| Near Swinderby, Lincolnshire in England | |||||||||||
 Former RAF Swinderby during 2008. | |||||||||||
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  RAF Swinderby Location in Lincolnshire | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°08′49″N 000°40′16″W / 53.14694°N 0.67111°W | ||||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force flying station | ||||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||||
| Condition | Closed | ||||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||||
| Built | 1940 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1940–1993 | ||||||||||
| Fate | Sold in 1995, the technical site is now an industrial estate and domestic site became the village of Witham St Hughs. The airfield remains and is disused. | ||||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||||
| Identifiers | ICAO: EGXS | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 19 metres (62 ft) AMSL | ||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Swinderby or 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 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.
The station closed on 17 December 1993.