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RAF North Coates
Former Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Royal Air Force North Coates or more simply RAF North Coates is a former Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, six miles south-east of Cleethorpes, and close to the mouth of the Humber estuary. It was an active air station during the First World War, and then again from the mid-1920s. Between 1942 and 1945, during the Second World War, it was the home of a Coastal Command Strike Wing, and from 1958 was a base for Bloodhound surface-to-air missiles, until it closed in 1990.[1]
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RAF North Coates | |||||||||||
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North Coates, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire | |||||||||||
![]() Aircrew and Bristol Beaufort Mk Is of No. 22 Squadron at North Coates | |||||||||||
Coordinates | 53°29′59.3″N 0°3′57.7″E | ||||||||||
Code | NC | ||||||||||
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Operator | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force | ||||||||||
Condition | Mainly returned to agricultural use; part occupied by North Coates Flying Club | ||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||
Site history | |||||||||||
Built | 1914 (1914) | ||||||||||
In use | 1916–1919 1926–1990 | ||||||||||
Fate | Sold to private ownership | ||||||||||
Battles/wars | First World War Second World War | ||||||||||
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Occupants | See list below | ||||||||||
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Identifiers | ICAO: EGYO | ||||||||||
Elevation | 17 ft (5.2 m) AMSL | ||||||||||
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