Abandoned RAF Folkingham With A Runway Of An Abandoned Vehicle Graveyard Left Behind

IN THIS VIDEO WE EXPLORE THE ABANDONED RAF FOLKINGHAM WITH A RUNAWAY OF AN ABANDONED VEHICLE GRAVEYARD LEFT BEHIND.
HISTORY
Opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces. During the war, it was used primarily as a troop carrier airfield for airborne units and as a subsidiary training depot of the newly formed Royal Air Force Regiment.
Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields, with the main north-south runway acting as hardstanding for hundreds of scrapped vehicles.
RAF Folkingham was originally established during the Second World War as a decoy airfield, designed to draw enemy attacks away from RAF Grantham, located on the eastern edge of the Lincolnshire town.
After the war, it was placed on care and maintenance during 1947 when the RAF Regiment relocated to RAF Catterick.
The station was closed in 1947, and in 1949 became a test track and workshop facility for BRM. It was here, in December 1949, where the team's first car was shown to the press.
In 1959, Folkingham was re-opened by the RAF as a base for the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, and BRM moved its facilities to North Witham on the south-western edge of the county.
In 1963, the RAF base closed for the second time when the Thor squadrons were disbanded. BRM moved back to Folkingham, but remained there for only three years, until the site was sold for agriculture.
Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields, with the main north-south runway acting as hardstanding for hundreds of scrapped vehicles.
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[@paulademarco1585]

On your own! We are there with you.❤❤❤🎉

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

This is very true 😁👍👊

[@jonnykrause7972]

Thanks for making the effort to show us this Razor, very interesting indeed.

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Thanks 👍 was good long walk to it too but glad managed to get around it without any issues

[@ksturmer5388]

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Thanks so much 👍👊

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[@SurajTanase-uo4lk]

Ami can you give me the location too please, it's a great place

[@dukwdriver2909]

The "truck, boat, tank like thing" Is a GMC 353 DUKW amphibious truck that is very dead but, the steering box with rudder control is unique to them and very rare. Worth salvaging. The strange twin steer truck is an American build twin engined snow plough. Also a Bedford RL Light Recovery, a Bedford QL aircraft refueler and what looked to be an early Coles crane.

[@fatdadslim-1]

Live down the road from this 🙌

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

That's cool went to the robin hood little John pub soon as finished up on this explore definitely nice bar there 😁👍

[@nigelpainter6354]

Mighty Antar!

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Thanks 👍

[@Neil-r1k]

The scrap value of all that would be collosal

[@paulademarco1585]

Forwarded to an aeronautical very very very, and two f brothers that fly and more, thank you this s ncrecibly.❤❤❤❤❤

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

No worries 😁👍

[@stoneysoundz1]

you could build the most mental machine with all those parts😁

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Especially for a zombie apocalypse lol 🤣🤣

[@nigelpainter6354]

Very sad. Only the Govt or MoD could afford this level of waste...

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

That's true such a shame

[@valbarber2818]

That was an amphibious vehicle for driving on land and can float on water. Mostly used by the army..

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Thanks for information 👍

[@jonathangriffin1120]

That was a DUKW amphibious vehicle from WWII, known as a 'Duck', produced in large numbers by General Motors they were based on a GM 6X6 truck and quickly turned out for D-Day, after the war many found employment in civvy street.

[@juliepownall1063]

Hi razor tanks and tractors going to rust and ruin shame really as you say

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Really is and such a bizarre place to store them too on a former RAF base

[@paulademarco1585]

Look up Larry mikberry !

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Will do

[@petergrinnell2500]

Alot the first if it is 70s and 80s plant machinery but they are some older stuff which some of can be repaired and restored its a huge site even in scrap metal there is alot of money sat there rusting away the other stuff is old farming equipment ploughs harrows pulled buy tractors that boat with wheels is wat they used in ww2 it can do on water and land amphibious vehicle they carryed troops across the sea they are rare wat a waist

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Thanks for the information and that's so cool to know that genuinely was a military vehicle then

[@paulademarco1585]

War time?

[@RAZORTWISTEDEXPLORINGOFFICIAL]

Seems some the vehicles look like their military vehicles