page_title: RAF Swinderby
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Swinderby
caption_attribution_description: English: Swinderby Airfield
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a 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.
  The station closed on 17 December 1993.
  The Explorer Scouts unit based in the village of Swinderby, is named EGXS, a reference to the ICAO of the airfield. Their badge includes the layout of Swinderby's runways.
context_section_description: Royal Air Force Swinderby or more simply RAF Swinderby was a 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 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
  The station closed on 17 December 1993.
  The Explorer Scouts unit based in the village of Swinderby, is named EGXS, a reference to the ICAO of the airfield. Their badge includes the layout of Swinderby's runways.
caption: Former RAF Swinderby during 2008.
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