RAF North Coates
Videos
Page
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.
Aircrew and Bristol Beaufort Mk Is of No. 22 Squadron at North Coates
A Beaufighter TF Mark X of No. 236 Squadron RAF based at North Coates, showing the rocket rails. The aircraft is painted with invasion stripes.
The memorial
Plaque on left side
Bloodhound (missile)
Videos
Page
The Bristol Bloodhound is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s. It served as the UK's main air defence weapon into the 1990s and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the forces of four other countries.
A Bloodhound missile at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London.
Bloodhound Mk II missiles deployed to Germany for exercise REFORGER '82.
Before-and-after detonation of a K11A1 continuous rod warhead intended for Bloodhound Mk.2
One of the two Bristol Thor ramjet engines of a Bloodhound missile