North Coates Airfield

RAF North Coates

Royal Air Force North Coates or more simply RAF North Coates is a former Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) 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.