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Royal Air Force Scampton or RAF Scampton (formerly IATA: SQZ, ICAO: EGXP) is a former Royal Air Force station located adjacent to the A15 road near to the village of Scampton, Lincolnshire, and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of the city of Lincoln, England.
Instead, it became a gate guardian at RAF Scampton [7] (the auction winner lent it to the RAF in exchange for them transporting and maintaining the now–grounded aircraft). The Pantons were able to subsequently buy it, with the condition that it remain at Scampton as gate guardian until 1983. In the event, it remained there until 1987. [3]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... RAF Scampton; RAF Scopwick; RAF Skellingthorpe; South Carlton Airfield; RAF Spilsby; RAF ...
Nigger's grave is at Royal Air Force station Scampton, Lincolnshire. [1] In July 2020 the headstone was replaced, with his name removed. The RAF said it "did not want to give prominence to an offensive term that went against its ethos". [3] In 2023, the RAF's request for listed building consent to move the dog's grave to another airbase was ...
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
RAF Scampton was previously home to the 617 Squadron, who completed the Dambuster raid, as well as the Red Arrows. Councillor Lesley Rollings, deputy leader of the council, said that the appeal ...
Plans by the previous government to use the Lincolnshire airbase as accommodation for asylum seekers have now been scrapped.
The absolute minimum temperature of −15.6 °C (3.9 °F) was recorded on 7 December 2010 at RAF Scampton, during the record-breaking winter of 2010–11 in Great Britain and Ireland. [13] A former nearby weather station holds the record for the lowest daytime maximum temperature recorded in England in the month of December at −9.0 °C (15.8 ...