RAF North Coates

RAF North Coates
North Coates, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire
Aircrew and Bristol Beaufort Mk Is of No. 22 Squadron at North Coates
RAF North Coates Location in Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°29′59.3″N 0°3′57.7″E / 53.499806°N 0.066028°E / 53.499806; 0.066028
Code	NC
Site information
Operator	Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force
Condition	Mainly returned to agricultural use; part occupied by North Coates Flying Club
Website	www.northcoatesflyingclub.co.uk
Site history
Built	1914 (1914)
In use	1916–1919 1926–1990
Fate	Sold to private ownership
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War
Garrison information
Occupants	See list below
Airfield information
Identifiers	ICAO: EGYO
Elevation	17 ft (5.2 m) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 07/25 4,260 ft (1,300 m) Concrete (closed) NW/SE 4,380 ft (1,340 m) Grass (closed) 05/23 760 m (2,490 ft) Grass (current)

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]