Opened:
Summer 1943
Subordinate to 14 Base: 16 Dec 1943
Closed:
1972
Squadrons
based here:
1667
HCU :: Oct 1943
- Feb 1944
92 MU :: 1957 - 1972
RAF Faldingworth
entered service life as Toft Grange decoy airfield, later becoming
a satellite
airfield of RAF Lindholme. On 16 Dec 1943 it became a satellite of
RAF Ludford Magna under 14 Base.
92 MU moved to Faldingworth from Wickenby in
1957 to store the V-Force's H Bombs and resembled a high security prison.
It closed in 1972 after the Royal Navy took over the nuclear deterrence
role from 1969 with Polaris.
There
is now a memorial to RAF Faldingworth
at the eastern end of the remains of runway 26; plaques, a memorial
book and a stained glass window are on display in the village chuch
:: memorials page.
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