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Sandtoft

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Also known as: Belton / RAF Sandtoft / Sandtoft Industrial Estate
County: North Lincolnshire
Current Status: Aviation / Farmland / Housing / Industry / Leisure activity
Date: December 1943 - 1957
Current Use: Limited flying
Used By: RAF / Civil
Landing Surface Types: Paved

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):

  • A J Auto Services
  • Aircraft Instruments Ltd
  • Award Feeds
  • Axholme Commercials Ltd
  • Belle Vue Trucks
  • Belton Parish Council
  • Caswick Limited
  • Coombs Suspended Ceilings
  • Copart UK
  • Danum Tyre Services
  • Delta Salvage Ltd
  • Direct Factory Kitchens
  • Discount Gas Supplies Ltd
  • Doncaster Landscape and Garden Centre Ltd t/a Danum Furniture
  • E-Plane Ltd - airfield operator
  • Elliott Modular Space Ltd
  • Epworth Town Council
  • European Vehicle Sales Ltd
  • Finningley Amateur Radio Society
  • Gas Appliance Sales & Servicing Ltd
  • Gold Line Pet Products Ltd
  • Henderson Transmissions
  • Hydrastore Ltd
  • Ian Allport Haulage Contractor
  • J Harris
  • John Warwick Engineering Ltd
  • L Johnson Transport
  • Liberty Guard (UK) Limited
  • M & R Concrete Ltd
  • MHS Commercials
  • MJN Auto Services
  • North Lincs Property Holdings Ltd
  • Protruck Auctions
  • R.J Marriott
  • Richard Ellory
  • Sandtoft Ultralights Partnership
  • Spirit Euro Trans
  • The Historical Aviation Foundation
  • The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft
  • Universal Electrical Services (Yorkshire) Ltd
  • Woodcarr Park
  • Yorkshire Radiator Covers

Notable Past Associated Organisations:

  • Twelco Fabrications Ltd
  • Westbrook Holiday Homes

 

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 35 MU
  • 52nd Street Aviation
  • No 61 MU
  • No 1656 HCU
  • No 1667 HCU
  • Sandtoft Flying School
  • Sandtoft Helicopters
  • Silverfern Microlights
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A runway at Sandtoft, 21 March 2006.

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Control tower, Watch Office for all Commands at Sandtoft, 27 May 2008. © Richard Flagg

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Control tower and clubhouse at Sandtoft, 27 May 2008. © Richard Flagg

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A runway at Sandtoft, 11 December 2009.

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Cars on the airfield at Sandtoft, 1 June 2011.

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A hangar at Sandtoft, 5 May 2013.

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Taxiway at the east of the airfield, looking south west. This is now the active runway 05:23 at Sandtoft, 25 May 2017. © Richard Flagg

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Taxiway at the east of the airfield, looking from near the site of a wartime T2 hangar, now Sandtoft Flying Club, 25 May 2017. © Richard Flagg

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Aircraft Dispersal (Spectacle Type) at the north of the current runway adjacent to Belton Road, 25 May 2017. © Richard Flagg

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Water tower at Sandtoft, 29 August 2020.

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