Satellite and aerial maps of North Coates with nearby locations

Kenneth Campbell Road, North Cotes, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, Greater Lincolnshire, England, DN36 5XU, United Kingdom

Nearby locations	Km	Bearing
off North Coates , Offshore UK	3.0	044
Fitties Beach , England	4.6	315
RAF Donna Nook , England	6.2	114	EGXS
Cleethorpes , England	6.5	313
Princess of Wales Hospital , England	11.9	294
Port of Grimsby , England	13.0	316

North Coates

1916 to present
53° 29' 53'' N 0° 4' 0'' E
4.5nm SE of Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
ICAO:	IATA:	Local: EGG59
Elevation: 17 feet

North Coates has seen several phases of use:

an Army camp from before 1910
from 1916 as a forward patrol base for Royal Flying Corps aircraft to intercept Zeppelins during the latter part of WWI, until spring 1919
reactivated in 1926 as an armaments training camp, servicing the nearby Donna Nook Range
during WWII it was a Coastal Command base
from 1948 it was used for parts recovery and scrapping of wrecked aircraft
Search and Rescue base for 275 Sq B Flt, from Feb 1955
from Jul 1956 it was transformed into a Bloodhound SAM base, until the RAF Station closed in Dec 1990
now used for general aviation on a part of the old RAF base.