RAF Metheringham
Station timeline and resident units

RAF Metheringham

Section Title: Station timeline and resident units
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Date	Event or Unit	Notes

1942	Airfield and accommodation construction commences

October 1943	RAF Metheringham opened as part of No. 5 Group RAF Station Identity Code: MN	In 1944 No. 5 Group RAF introduced station control groupings for future operations with all squadrons from stations in the group linking up and flying as a single formation.

11 November 1943	No. 106 Squadron RAF	Operating Avro Lancasters and relocated from RAF Syerston near Grantham. This squadron operated from Metheringham throughout the remainder of the Second World War and only disbanded on 18 February 1946.

21 November 1943	No. 110 Squadron RAF	Operating Lancasters. The squadron arrived from RAF Wattisham but flew no operational missions from RAF Metheringham and relocated to RAF Waddington just a few weeks later, when space had been made for them there.

June 1945	No. 467 Squadron RAAF	Operating Lancasters. Arrived from RAF Waddington to train for planned Tiger Force operations against Japan.

October 1945	No. 189 Squadron RAF	Operating Lancasters. The squadron had relocated from RAF Bardney where it had been involved in dropping food relief to the Dutch and repatriating POWs, a role it continued while at Metheringham.

February 1946	Flying ceased from RAF Metheringham	Lancaster bomber aircraft from the disbanded squadrons were flown to RAF Scampton and RAF Hemswell for mothballing, storage and disposal.

May 1946	RAF Metheringham decommissioned and closed

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No. 467 Squadron RAAF arrived to train for planned Tiger Force operations against Japan.

final_sentence: No. 467 Squadron RAAF arrived to train for planned Tiger Force operations against Japan.