Satellite and aerial maps of North Coates with nearby locations
Nearby locations | Km | Bearing | |
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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.
List of units at North Coates |
Years | Unit | |
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1954/57 | 275 Squadron | Type 171 Sycamore, Type 171 Sycamore, |
List of aircraft and events at North Coates |
Dates | Org/Type | Unit | |||||
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1955-feb | Detachment | 275 Squadron | Sycamore 4 | XE317 | |||
1956-jan | Detachment | 275 Squadron | Sycamore 4 | XG514 | |||
1957-may-20 | Accident | 275 Squadron | Sycamore 4 | XJ363 | |||
2019-feb-15 | AH9 | ZG914 | |||||
2022-jan-09 | AH.1 | G-CDNO | |||||
2023-apr-02 | SA342M | HA-HSG |