RAF Swinderby
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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 between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
Former RAF Swinderby during 2008.
Haec porta moenia viri (Latin for 'This is the gate, the walls are men')
Passing out parade in November 1971.
Information board outside the new village hall, 2013.
No. 50 Squadron RAF
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No. 50 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed during the First World War as a home defence fighter squadron, and operated as a bomber squadron during the Second World War and the Cold War. It disbanded for the last time in 1984.
Photograph showing the destruction at Vallø after RAFs last major strategic raid
Avro Vulcan B.2 of No. 50 Squadron at RAF Mildenhall in 1976.