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...
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Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 9 October 2023. "Coleby Grange airfield", controltowers.co.uk: RAF Coleby Grange Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore, Action Stations:...
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cemetery includes a War Graves site for airmen from RAF Coleby Grange and RAF Digby (originally RAF Scopwick), and includes the grave of the nineteen-year-old...
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dispersals, although the next main fighter station further north was RAF Coleby Grange. Embry in Mission Completed states that in 1940 (the station's official...
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Regine 3 Jul – 5 Oct 1944 RAF Gransden Lodge 25 Oct 1944 – 28 Sep 1945 RAF Eastleigh 1 Feb 1959 – 1 Apr 1959 RAF Coleby Grange 22 Jul 1959 – 24 May 1963...
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Lombardo (born 1978), former child actor RAF Coleby Grange, air force base This page lists people with the surname Coleby. If an internal link intending to refer...
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PGM-17 Thor (section Books referencing RAF use)
No. 142 (Strategic Missile) Squadron – RAF Coleby Grange, Lincolnshire No. 269 (Strategic Missile) Squadron – RAF Caistor, Lincolnshire Driffield Wing No...
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duties, both defensive and offensive. Mosquitos were widely used by the RAF Pathfinder Force, which marked targets for night-time strategic bombing....
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squadrons operating from nearby satellite fields under its control at RAF Coleby Grange and RAF Wellingore. The first squadron scrambled from Digby was No. 46...
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Grove Tuddenham Mepal North Pickenham Hemswell Ludford Magna Bardney Coleby Grange Caistor Driffield Full Sutton Carnaby Catfoss Breighton North Luffenham...
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1959 RAF Hemswell became the headquarters for the "No. 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites" located at RAF Bardney, RAF Caistor, RAF Coleby Grange and...
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409 Tactical Fighter Squadron (redirect from No 409 Squadron RAF)
Squadron was formed at RAF Digby in June 1941 for night operations with Boulton-Paul Defiants, moving in July to RAF Coleby Grange, where, in August, Beaufighter...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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RAF Hemswell was also the headquarters for the No. 5 (Lincolnshire) Missile Dispersal Sites located at RAF Bardney, RAF Caistor, RAF Coleby Grange and...
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the naming tradition of the Royal Air Force, whereby the prefix RCAF (vs. RAF) was affixed. High River Vancouver Winnipeg Dartmouth Camp Borden Ottawa...
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and Supermarine Spitfire Mk's VB and IX. The squadron then moved to RAF Coleby Grange. No. 400 Army Co-Operation Squadron between 18 June 1941 and 25 June...
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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...
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Graffoe to the west and Metheringham to the east) next to the former RAF Coleby Grange, and B1178 (for Harmston), where it passes Dunston Pillar. At Nocton...
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placed at RAF Coleby Grange in Lincolnshire, then moved for the sixth time to RAF West Malling in the southeast of England, and then to RAF Hunsdon, just...
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considered to be a hazard to low-flying aircraft approaching nearby RAF Coleby Grange, and the tower's height was lowered by 40 feet (12 metres) to reduce...
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RAF No. 281 Squadron RAF Durham University Air Squadron RAF Blyton RAF Brize Norton RAF Coleby Grange RAF Coningsby RAF Cranwell RAF Northolt Whaley, R;...
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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...
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- 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...
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Navigator and was posted to No. 409 (RCAF) Squadron on Beaufighters at Coleby Grange in November 1941. He went to No. 255 Squadron at Coltishall in February...
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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...
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November 2016. Tempest, Eleanor Blanche. "Tempests of Broughton-in-Craven and Coleby, Co. Lincoln". Tempest Pedigrees. p. 444. Retrieved 19 November 2016. "Famous...
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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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Clifford Karl Christensen, Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader Brian Finbarr Coleby, Royal Air Force. Warrant Officer Bryan Michael Cross, Royal Air Force....
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Grade I SK 84552 48996 Claythorpe East Lindsey Cold Hanworth West Lindsey Coleby North Kesteven St John's Church Colsterworth South Kesteven 11th Century...
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