RAF North Coates
Squadrons

RAF North Coates

Section Title: Squadrons
Table Section Text: None

Dates	Name	Notes

1914 – 1916	Lincolnshire Regiment

1916 – September 1918	No. 33 Squadron RFC/RAF	Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2.

October 1918 – March 1919	No. 248 Squadron RAF	Airco DH.6, Sopwith Baby and Sopwith Tabloid.

Closed March 1919 – 1926

February 1927 – October 1936	No. 2 Armament Practice Camp	Renamed No. 2 Armament Training Camp in December 1932.

January 1936 – 2 September 1939	Air Observers School	Renamed No. 2 Air Armaments School on 1 November 1937, and then No.

1934 – July 1945	North Coates Station Flight	Fairey Gordon and Westland Wallace, and a Fairey IIIF, Miles Magister M.14A, Avro Tutor and de Havilland DH.60 Gypsy Moth.

9 April 1938 – 7 May 1938	No. 144 Squadron RAF	Bristol Blenheim Mk I.

September 1939 – June 1940	No. 2 Recruit Training Pool

December 1939 – June 1940	Ground Defence Gunnery School	Westland Wallace, Hawker Hart and Gloster Gauntlet.

January 1940 – August 1940	Detachment, No. 611 Squadron RAF	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I.

February 1940 – April 1940	No. 248 Squadron RAF	Bristol Blenheim IVF.

February 1940 – April 1940	No. 235 Squadron RAF	Bristol Blenheim Mk IA & IVF.

February 1940 – April 1940	No. 236 Squadron RAF	Bristol Blenheim Mk IA & IVF.

April 1940 – June 1941	No. 22 Squadron RAF	Bristol Beaufort Mk I, Avro Anson Mk I and Martin Maryland.

May 1940 – March 1941	812 Naval Air Squadron	Fairey Swordfish.

August 1940 – February 1941	Detachment, No. 616 Squadron RAF	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I.

March 1941 – May 1941	816 Naval Air Squadron	Fairey Swordfish.

May 1941 – December 1941	No. 86 Squadron RAF	Bristol Beaufort Mk I.

June 1941	No. 6 Anti Aircraft Co-operation Unit	de Havilland DH.87 Leopard Moth and Westland Lysander.

July 1941 – February 1942	No. 407 Squadron RCAF	Lockheed Hudson Mk V.

November 1941 – January 1943	"D" Flight, No. 278 Squadron RAF	Westland Lysander and Boulton Paul Defiant ASR Mk. 1.

January 1942 – August 1942	No. 59 Squadron RAF	Lockheed Hudson Mk V and two Consolidated B-24 Liberator Mk III.

January 1942 – May 1942	No. 53 Squadron RAF	Lockheed Hudson Mk I & V.

February – March 1942	776 Naval Air Squadron	Blackburn Roc.

February 1942 – November 1943	No. 7 Anti Aircraft Co-operation Unit	Westland Lysander, Miles Master, de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth, and an Airspeed Oxford.

April – May 1942	No. 42 Squadron RAF	Bristol Beaufort Mk I.

June – August 1942	No. 415 Squadron RCAF	Handley Page Hampden TB Mk I.

August 1942 – August 1943	No. 143 Squadron RAF	Bristol Blenheim Mk IV and Bristol Beaufighter Mk IIF.

September 1942 – October 1942	Detachment, No. 608 Squadron RAF	Lockheed Hudson Mk V.

September 1942 – May 1945	No. 236 Squadron RAF	Bristol Beaufighter.

November 1942 – June 1945	No. 254 Squadron RAF	Bristol Beaufighter, de Havilland Mosquito Mk XVIII, a Bristol Beaufort and an Avro Anson.

January – March 1944	No. 415 Squadron RCAF	Vickers Wellington XIII.

February – May, & September 1944	No. 143 Squadron RAF	Bristol Beaufighter, a Bristol Blenheim and a de Havilland Mosquito.

September – October 1945	No. 25 Maintenance Unit

October 1945 – December 1946	No. 61 Maintenance Unit

January – October 1947	No. 1 Initial Training School

May 1948 – August 1953	School of Explosives Inspection

July 1948 – August 1953	No. 5131 (Bomb Disposal) Squadron

August 1953 – July 1956	No. 54 Maintenance Unit

Mid-1954 – June 1990	RAF North Coates Station Flight	Avro Anson.

November 1954 – October 1957	"B" Flight, No. 275 (Air Sea Rescue) Squadron RAF	Bristol Sycamore HR.14.

December 1958 – November 1962	No. 264 Squadron RAF	Bristol Bloodhound Mk I.

February 1962 – December 1966	No. 17 Joint Services Trials Unit	Bristol Bloodhound Mk II.

February 1963 – April 1964	No. 148 (SAM) Service Wing	Bristol Bloodhound Mk I.

October 1963 – January 1971	No. 25 Squadron RAF	Bristol Bloodhound Mk I, converted to Mk II in 1964.

October 1963 – August 1964	Surface to Air Missile Operational Training School	Bristol Bloodhound Mk II. Absorbed into No. 25 Squadron RAF.

March 1976 – April 1990	"B" Flight, No. 85 Squadron RAF	Bristol Bloodhound Mk II.

April 1987 – June 1990	Bloodhound Missile System Maintenance School	Bristol Bloodhound Mk II.

Sentence(s)

No. 248 Squadron RAF was located at North Coates from October 1918 to March 1919.

final_sentence: No. 248 Squadron RAF was located at North Coates from October 1918 to March 1919.