RAF North Coates
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Royal Air Force North Coates or more simply RAF North Coates is a former Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, 6 miles south-east of Cleethorpes, and close to the mouth of the Humber estua
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
No. 248 Squadron RAF
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No. 248 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force, active immediately after World War I, and again during World War II.
RAF North Coates
…Corps' No. 33 (Home Defence) Squadron, based at Brattleby, and tasked with coastal patrols in North Lincolnshire. From October 1918 it was occupied by No. 248 Squadron RAF, but after the armistice the airfield was gradually run down and eventually closed in March 1919, and the land was returned to its original owner. The…
The heraldic badge of the squadron as it appears on the Battle of Britain Monument in London.
Mosquito FB Mark XVIII, NT225 O, of No. 248 Squadron RAF Special Detachment based at RAF Portreath, Cornwall, banking away from the camera while in flight, showing the 57mm Molins gun mounted underneath the nose