RAF Wellingore

Royal Air Force Station Wellingore or more simply RAF Wellingore is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.9 mi south of Navenby, Lincolnshire and 7.2 mi north west of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. In December, 1941, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the famous aviation poem, "High Flight," took off from Wellingore on his final flight, in which he was killed.

History

 * No. 11 Service Flying Training School.
 * No. 29 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 54 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 81 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 154 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 288 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 309 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 349 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 402 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 412 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 416 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 439 Squadron RAF.
 * No. 613 Squadron RAF.

Current use
The site is now used as farmland.