RAF Kirton in Lindsey opened in 1940 and served as a working fighter station throughout the Battle of Britain and well beyond, one of a great many Lincolnshire airfields whose genuine wartime losses have left behind a scattering of ghost stories across the county. Local accounts describe airmen in old flying kit glimpsed near the former runways and technical buildings, and the sound of aircraft engines reported by people with no obvious source anywhere nearby, entirely in keeping with a very common recurring theme found across the county's many disused Second World War stations.
As with most Lincolnshire airfield hauntings recorded elsewhere throughout this collection, the reports here remain general and undated rather than tied to any single named crew or specific incident, offering atmosphere rather than developed narrative.
They are best read as part of the wider tradition of ghost airmen folklore that has grown up steadily around the county's own genuine wartime flying heritage, Kirton in Lindsey's own contribution standing alongside dozens of comparable stories from neighbouring airfields that together make up Lincolnshire's distinctive Bomber County ghost tradition.
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