RAF Cranwell Regional Gliding Club was established in 1972 on a site steeped in aviation history. From our grass airfield, the earliest fliers of the Royal Naval Air Service and later the fledgling pilots of the Royal Air Force took their first flights.
Today the club is a thriving facility, where the aim is to encourage local servicemen come to participate in the challenging and highly rewarding sport of gliding. Local civilians are also welcome to visit us to sample the delights of a trial lesson. In recent years the club has as part of its flying activities integrated the Nottingham University Gliding Club whose student members embrace the sport with great enthusiasm.
Gliding from Cranwell offers a great opportunity to soar silently over the Lincolnshire countryside, experiencing the exhilarating sensations of engineless flight. Lincoln Cathedral is usually visible, as is Boston and the wash to the South-East and the Trent Valley to the West.
Historic Lincoln