RAF Flying Training Command RAF Fighter Command * No. 12 Group RAF[1]
Site history
Built
1938 (1938)
In use
1939-1963 (1963)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II Cold War
Airfield information
Elevation
61 metres (200 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
NE/SW
1,800 metres (5,906 ft) Grass
NW/SE
1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Grass
W/E
880 metres (2,887 ft) Grass
Royal Air Force Coleby Grange or more simply RAF Coleby Grange was a Royal Air Force satellite station situated alongside the western edge of the A15 on open heathland between the villages of Coleby and Nocton Heath and lying 7.4 mi (11.9 km) due south of the county town Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
Opened in 1939 and operated as a fighter and night fighter airfield during the Second World War, occupied at various times by UK, US, Canadian and Polish fighter squadrons, the station briefly switched to a training role post-war before being placed on a care and maintenance basis.
Reopened in 1959 as an RAF Bomber Command Intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) launch facility and placed on a high DEFCON 2 launch alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the station was finally closed and decommissioned in 1963. The site has been returned to agricultural use and now has little evidence of its former use, other than several lengths of perimeter track and the original air traffic control tower.
Royal Air Force ColebyGrange or more simply RAFColebyGrange was a Royal Air Force satellite station situated alongside the western edge of the A15 on...
cemetery includes a War Graves site for airmen from RAFColebyGrange and RAF Digby (originally RAF Scopwick), and includes that of the young Second World...
dispersals, although the next main fighter station further north was RAFColebyGrange. Embry in Mission Completed states that in 1940 (the station's official...
Lombardo (born 1978), former child actor RAFColebyGrange, air force base This page lists people with the surname Coleby. If an internal link intending to refer...
squadrons operating from nearby satellite fields under its control at RAFColebyGrange and RAF Wellingore. The first squadron scrambled from Digby was No. 46...
duties, both defensive and offensive. Mosquitos were widely used by the RAF Pathfinder Force, which marked targets for night-time strategic bombing....
and Supermarine Spitfire Mk's VB and IX. The squadron then moved to RAFColebyGrange. No. 400 Army Co-Operation Squadron between 18 June 1941 and 25 June...
Squadron was formed at RAF Digby in June 1941 for night operations with Boulton-Paul Defiants, moving in July to RAFColebyGrange, where, in August, Beaufighter...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
RAF Hemswell was also the headquarters for the No. 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites located at RAF Bardney, RAF Caistor, RAFColebyGrange and...
1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
Grove Tuddenham Mepal North Pickenham Hemswell Ludford Magna Bardney ColebyGrange Caistor Driffield Full Sutton Carnaby Catfoss Breighton North Luffenham...
considered to be a hazard to low-flying aircraft approaching nearby RAFColebyGrange, and the tower's height was lowered by 40 feet (12 metres) to reduce...
the naming tradition of the Royal Air Force, whereby the prefix RCAF (vs. RAF) was affixed. High River Vancouver Winnipeg Dartmouth Camp Borden Ottawa...
placed at RAFColebyGrange in Lincolnshire, then moved for the sixth time to RAF West Malling in the southeast of England, and then to RAF Hunsdon, just...
1959 RAF Hemswell became the headquarters for the "No. 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites" located at RAF Bardney, RAF Caistor, RAFColebyGrange and...
simply RAF Kirton in Lindsey is a former Royal Air Force station located 15 miles (24 km) north of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. It's an RAF habit (inherited...
aerial victories. Edmund Tempest was born at the family estate of Ackworth Grange, in Ackworth, Yorkshire, the son of Wilfrid Francis Tempest, a member of...
- ZA934, a Puma helicopter of No. 33 Squadron, RAF Benson, crashed into a field near to Hudswell Grange, Catterick Training Area (CTA) whilst on a troop...
Navigator and was posted to No. 409 (RCAF) Squadron on Beaufighters at ColebyGrange in November 1941. He went to No. 255 Squadron at Coltishall in February...
other is the 6th Skegness. RAF Manby was situated near the village between 1938 and 1974. Houses in Manby were built for RAF personnel, with village streets...
November 2016. Tempest, Eleanor Blanche. "Tempests of Broughton-in-Craven and Coleby, Co. Lincoln". Tempest Pedigrees. p. 444. Retrieved 19 November 2016. "Famous...
Clifford Karl Christensen, Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader Brian Finbarr Coleby, Royal Air Force. Warrant Officer Bryan Michael Cross, Royal Air Force....
Industry. Gerry Kinsella, Scheme Manager, Greenbank Project. Sheila Margaret Coleby Klopper, Founder, Ready Call General Good Neighbour Scheme. Henry John Bannister...
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