Scampton Scampton Scampton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brampton and Broadholme at the 2011 census was 1,358. It is situated north from Lincoln, south-east from Gainsborough, and west from the A15 road. In the civil parish, between the village and the A15, is RAF Scampton. The airfield first opened in 1916 as Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, becoming Scampton the following year, and then closing in 1919; it re-opened in 1936 as RAF Scampton. The Dambusters Inn on High Street contains RAF and Second World
RAF Scampton the arrival of the Tornado Radar Repair Unit. In August 1990, RAF Scampton became home to the Joint Arms Control Implementation Group (JACIG). JACIG was a joint service organisation operating, initially, with around 250 personnel made up of roughly 50% Army, 35% Royal Air Force and 15% Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Civilians from the MOD. In the beginning, the responsibility of JACIG was to oversee the implementation of the Control of Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty though they soon had responsibility for a number of other remits; The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), Open