RAF Waddington ARC ran a Special Event Station GB0EEL on the weekend of 2-3 August 2024 at former RAF Binbrook. This was the 70th anniversary of the first test flight on 4th August 1954, from RAF Boscombe Down, of the English Electric P1A (WG760), the type that was later to become the English Electric Lightning, piloted by English Electric’s chief test pilot Wing Commander Roland Beaumont.

RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club ran a Special Event Station for Airfields on the Air over the weekend of 5-7 April at former RAF Binbrook, using the callsign GB5BK.

This event was run to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the RAF receiving its first Typhoon on December 18th 2003.

To help commemorate this event the RAF Coningsby ARC members will be putting GX3LQS/P on the air from different locations during November & December for the Typhoons’ 20th anniversary.

Members of the club were operational again at former RAF Binbrook during the weekend of 6-8 October, activating this location for Airfields on the Air.

Members of RAF Waddington Amateur Radio Club activated the site of the former RAF Binbrook airfield on the weekend of 1-2 April as part of Airfields on the Air 2023.