Station briefing
About this museum
Thorpe Camp preserves RAF Woodhall Spa's communal site — home of 617 Squadron post-Dams — as a period village of huts, with volunteers in the 1940s dress code and a Lightning and Wessex on the lawn.
Sortie notes
Limited days (volunteer shortage); NAAFI bacon baps endorsed at length in reviews.
“Really fantastic place, we spent 4 hours there, and needed more time”— Val, visitor report
Order of battle
Airframe checklist
Tick them off as you go. Identities are as held in the gazetteer survey — verify against the museum’s own labels if something has moved.
| Type | Identity | |
|---|---|---|
| Avro Lancaster nose and cockpit mock-up | — | |
| Panavia Tornado cockpit | — |
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2 · source 3. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Visit
Location & contact
- Address
- Tattershall Thorpe, Lincoln LN4 4PL
- Website
- www.thorpecamp.org/
- Gazetteer
- MI-10 on the situation map