RAF Spitalgate, UK
This scenery is merely a representation of RAF Spitalgate(formally RAF Grantham) and is only intended to add another flying base for the many simmers out there who would like to fly to a different location once in a while. The H & J Blocks are in the correct place as is the officers mess(I think) the rest is just placed to add flavour of an RAF Unit. The station opened in 1915 as Royal Flying Corps Station Grantham, becoming RAF Station Grantham on 1 April 1918 – a name it bore until 1942 when it was renamed as RAF Station Spitalgate. Throughout the First World War the station was a flying training facility and headquarters of No. 21 Group RFC Flying Training Command. The station was an Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) in the 1950s. Much later it became the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) Depot, responsible for the recruitment and training of all non-commissioned females in the RAF, until this moved to RAF Hereford and later again to RAF Swinderby. It was also the home of the Central Gliding School which moved to RAF Syerston in March 1975. In 1975 the RAF vacated the site and the following year it became a British Army base known as Prince William of Gloucester Barracks
