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Strubby

Major
Also known as: RAF Strubby
County: Lincolnshire
Current Status: Industry / Housing / Aviation
Date: 1943 - September 1972
Current Use: Limited flying
Used By: RAF / Civil
The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/07/2013):
  • Lincs Aquatics
  • Lindsey Marsh Drainage Board
  • Strubby with Woodthorpe Parish Meeting
  • Withern with Stain Parish Council
  • Woodthorpe Kart Club

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 35 MU

  • No 93 MU

  • No 144 Sqn

  • No 154 (General Reconnaissance) Wing

  • No 227 Sqn

  • No 280 Sqn

  • No 381 MU

  • No 382 MU

  • No 383 MU

  • No 384 MU

  • No 404 Sqn

  • No 619 Sqn

  • No 2735 Sqn RAF Regiment
  • Empire Air Armament School

  • Lincolnshire GC
  • Night Bomber Tactical School/Unit
  • RAF College of Air Warfare

  • RAF Flying College

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No 227 Squadron Air Gunners at Strubby, May 1945. Courtesy of New Zealand Bomber Command Association/Croker

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No 227 Squadron Bomb Aimers at Strubby, May 1945. Courtesy of New Zealand Bomber Command Association/Croker

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No 227 Squadron Wireless Operators (Air) at Strubby, May 1945. Courtesy of New Zealand Bomber Command Association/Croker

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The control tower at Strubby, based on the original Second World War watch office, early 1990s. Photograph copyright © 2016 Nick Challoner, all rights reserved, www.challoner.com

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Control tower at Strubby, 26 May 2008. © Richard Flagg

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The control tower at Strubby, 24 August 2014.

Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Manby

Bomber Command Base Station(s):

East Kirkby

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