Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District
Coningsby

RAF Coningsby

Royal Air Force Coningsby or RAF Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station located 13.7 kilometres south-west of Horncastle, and 15.8 kilometres north-west of , in the East Lindsey district of , .
Tap on a place
to explore it
raf.mod.uk
+44 1526 34 7443
+44 1526 34 7716
Wikipedia
Photo: Mark Holland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Email: con-gmbairops@mod.gov.uk
  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Royal Air Force main operating base in Lincolnshire, England
  • Also known as: “EGXC”, “QCY”, “Royal Air Force Coningsby”, and “Royal Air Force Station Coningsby”
  • Address: Coningsby, Coningsby, Lincoln, LN4 4SY

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tattershall Castle and Church of Holy Trinity.

Photo: Brian, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a castle in , , England. Since 1925 it has been in the care of the National Trust.

Church
Photo: Greenshed, Public domain.

Ruins
Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was a grammar school in , . The college was established in 1439 and the building that still stands today was constructed between 1454 and 1460.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tattershall and New York.

Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY 3.0.
is in . Village historic sites include the church of the Holy Trinity, a buttercross, Castle, Collegiate College, and Tom Thumb's house and grave.

Village
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of , England, in the parish of in the Lincolnshire Fens on the B1192 road near , 11+1⁄2 miles north of . At the 2001 Census, its population was less than 150.

Hamlet
Photo: David Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of , in the East Lindsey district, in , England, on the .

RAF Coningsby

Latitude
53.09208° or 53° 5′ 32″ north
Longitude
-0.16629° or 0° 9′ 59″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Inception
1940
Operator
Royal Air Force
IATA airport code
QCY
ICAO airport code
EGXC
Open location code
9C5X3RRM+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 150829996
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
6296664
Wiki­data ID
Q1164127
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover RAF Coningsby from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“RAF Coningsby” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Coningsby Royal Air Force Base”
  • Chinese: “科寧斯比皇家空軍基地”
  • Dutch: “RAF Coningsby”
  • French: “RAF Coningsby”
  • German: “RAF Coningsby”
  • Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר המלכותי קונינגסבי”
  • Indonesian: “EGXC”
  • Indonesian: “QCY”
  • Italian: “RAF Coningsby”
  • Japanese: “Coningsby空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “カニングスビー空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “コニングスビー空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “英空軍 Coningsby 基地”
  • Malay: “Pangkalan Udara Coningsby”
  • Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Coningsby”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “RAF Coningsby”
  • Norwegian: “RAF Coningsby”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی کانینگسبی”
  • Spanish: “Coningsby Airfield”
  • Swedish: “Coningsby Royal Air Force Base”
  • Swedish: “RAF Coningsby”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате конингсби”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Coningsby Field and Scrub Hill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) South and Multi-Use Games Area.

Lincolnshire: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Lincoln, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, and Stamford.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “RAF Coningsby”. Photo: Mark Holland, CC BY-SA 2.0.