Royal Air Force Stations in Lincolnshire
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Contents
- Expansion of RAF Airfields in the 1930s
- International Bomber Command Centre.
- RAF Anwick
- RAF Bardney
- RAF Barkston Heath
- RAF Binbrook
- RAF Blyton
- RAF Bottesford
- RAF Caistor
- RAF Coleby Grange
- RAF Coningsby
- RAF Cranwell
- RAF Digby
- RAF Donna Nook (Range)
- RAF Dunholme Lodge
- RAF East Kirkby
- RAF Elsham Wolds
- RAF Faldingworth
- RAF Fiskerton
- RAF Folkingham
- RAF Fulbeck
- RAF Goxhill
- RAF Grimsby / Waltham
- RAF Harlaxton
- RAF Hemswell / Harpswell
- RAF Hibaldstow
- RAF Holbeach Range
- RAF Ingham / Cammeringham
- RAF Kelstern
- RAF Kirmington
- RAF Kirton-in Lindsey
- RAF Ludford Magna
- RAF Manby
- RAF Metheringham
- RAF North Cotes
- RAF North Killingholme
- RAF North Witham
- RAF Saltby
- RAF Sandtoft
- RAF Scampton / Brattleby
- RAF Skellingthorpe
- RAF Spilsby
- RAF Spitalgate (Grantham)
- RAF Strubby
- RAF Sturgate
- RAF Sutton Bridge
- RAF Swinderby
- RAF Waddington
- RAF Wainfleet Range
- RAF Wellingore
- RAF Wickenby
- RAF Woodhall Spa
- FIDO
- High Flight
- Folkingham in 1944
- Fulbeck 1944
- Goxhill 1947
RAF Goxhill
Airfield Code: GX: USAAF Station 345: Grid reference centred on: TA 113 214
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Goxhill is the northernmost Airfield in Lincolnshire, It started life as a RFC flying field in April 1916. The exact location is unknown.
Goxhill was originally used as a barrage balloon site to protect the port of Hull and the River Humber. 1940, Goxhill was transferred to 1 Group RAF Bomber Command and construction commenced in early 1941. Built to Class "A" specifications as a bomber airfield and equipped with three hangars, two T2’s and a single J-Type, four blister hangars and fifty aircraft hardstands it opened in 1941.
Its location, however, was too close to the air defences of Hull to be used for bombers. Its first occupant was No. 1 Group, which took up residence in June 1941. Its mission was towing practice targets with Westland Lysanders; its first operation began on 25 October. In December 1941, RAF Fighter Command replaced the Bomber Command training unit with No. 12 Group, flying Supermarine Spitfires from 616 Squadron at RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey. Fighter Command operated the base until May 1942. The airfield was soon relegated to satellite field use by RAF Kirmington until August 1942, when it was taken over by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It was subsequently known as USAAF Station 345. Following the arrival of the Headquarters Unit, were the 71st Fighter Squadron, both under the control of the 1st Fighter Group. They brought with them the Lockheed P-38 Lightning which started to arrive the following month.
The USAAF used Goxhill as a training airfield for the rest of the war; several squadrons used it after their initial deployment to the UK, then moved on to a permanent facility for their operational missions.
With the war at an end the station was kept on Care and Maintenance until 1948, when sections of the accommodation area were allocated to the Ministry of Health for emergency use. Maintenance Command also used the airfield for storage of excess munitions amongst other things, and it remained a storage depot until the station was finally closed on the 14th December 1953.
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