RAF Faldingworth
RAF Faldingworth
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Aerial view of RAF Faldingworth (March 2016)
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Faldingworth, Lincolnshire | ||||||||||||||||||
| Built | 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||
| In use | 1943-1972 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 49 ft / 15 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°20′58″N 000°27′23″W / 53.34944°N 0.45639°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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 RAF Faldingworth
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Royal Air Force Faldingworth or more simply RAF Faldingworth is a former Royal Air Force station used during and after the Second World War. It was located close to the village of Faldingworth in Lincolnshire, England.
By 1936 the RAF Expansion Scheme had overseen a period of rapid increases both in terms of aircraft operated and the development of new stations.The Faldingworth site was one of several earmarked under the expansion programme.
As it developed, it made an increasingly dramatic imposition on the surrounding rural landscapesuch as to the Lincolnshire Edge, a Jurassic limestone ridge, which forms the distinctive backbone of the county from Whitton on the Humber Estuary in the north, down to Grantham in the south.
It provides a continuous homogenous landscape of high quality agricultural land, with a number of local variations. To the west of the Edge, the gently undulating Trent Vale eventually flows into the moors and levels of Humberhead, draining to the Humber Estuary.
To the east there is a gentle transition into the Central Lincolnshire Vale between the Humber and Lincoln, while south of Lincoln the Edge is bounded by a narrow finger of Fenland, which follows the River Witham into Lincoln. To the south, the Edge merges into the more undulating Kesteven Uplands.
Along the top of the Edge a series of airfields were developed, they lie within an open landscape, consisting of rectilinear fields and few boundaries.
Faldingworth entered service life as Toft Grange decoy airfield and later as a satellite airfield of RAF Lindholme. Late in 1943 it became a satellite of RAF Ludford Magna. After the war the base was used for storage of weapons.
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