8 Flying Training School RAF, converting trainee pilots to de Havilland Vampires.

This was abandoned after a month due to the obvious danger of collisions in the circuit between the Vampires and the much slower piston engined Percival Provost basic trainers.

[9][10][11] A live LP recording of a passing out parade was made in 1973, featuring the Midland Band of the Royal Air Force.

[13] The following units were also here at some point:[17] In 1995 the station was put up for sale, where the land was purchased by Cemex for commercial mining.

In 2013 the hangars and the air traffic control tower remained in evidence along with acres of concrete runways and taxiways but most of the other buildings on the technical site have been demolished.

301 Polish Squadrons who served with the Royal Air Force at RAF Swinderby during WW II".

[35] The Explorer Scouts unit based in the village of Swinderby, is named EGXS, a reference to the ICAO location indicator of the airfield.