Royal Air Force Blyton or more simply RAF Blyton is a former

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satellite station located in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

, north east of

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, and south of

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. It was built in 1942 and was heavily used during the

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but it was used little after the early stages of the Cold War.

History

No. 199 Squadron RAF No. 199 Squadron was a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron that operated during the Second World War and later in the 1950s as a radar countermeasures squadron. History No. 199 Squadron was formed at Rochford on 1 June 1917 with Royal Aircraf ...

* 'B' Flight of No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School RAF (November 1943 - February 1944) * No. 7 Air Crew Holding Unit * Sub site of No. 61 Maintenance Unit RAF (March 1946 - ?) * Relief Landing Ground for No. 101 Flying Refresher School RAF (October 1951 - February 1952) * Relief Landing Ground for No. 215 Advanced Flying School RAF (February 1952 - January 1954) * No. 1481 Target Towing and Gunnery Flight RAF (September - November 1942) * No. 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF (January 1943 - April 1945) * No. 2797 Squadron RAF Regiment * Air Bomber Training Flight, No. 1 Group (September - November 1942)

Current use

It is now used for off-road racing

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, rally driving and test running refurbished and/or new designs of

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