Lincolnshire Airfields No.33 North Coates. –
I visited North Coates on the 13th August 2017, This airfield has been used on and off since the RFC days of WW1. I first went and asked at the Flying Club If I could take pictures and have a look around the Hangar. I was taken around the hangar and onto the flight side to take my pictures, what a diverse set of residents from a 1947 Miles Gemini a motorised Slingsby T21 glider stored,1960’s Mooney, Tri-pacer and Cessna 172A and the German registered FW-149D D-EARY.
The usual format I have posted pictures from my visit.
1/G-AKHP Miles M65 Gemini 1A (Built 1947)
2/G-ARCF Piper Pa-22-150 Carabbean (Built 1956)
3/BGA1482 (XN147) Slingsby T21B (T) Sedbergh Motor glider (Built 1959)
4/D-EARY Piaggio FWP-149D (Built 1959)
5/G-ARFG Cessna 172A (Modfied) (Built 1960)
6/G-ASUB Mooney M20E (Built 1964)
7/N259SA Reims Cessna F172G (Built 1966)
8/G-BOKW Bolkow BO-208C Junior (Built 1969)
9/G-AXTC Piper Pa-28 140 Cherokee (Built 1969)
10/G-CGMH Jodel D150A (Built 1983)
11/G-MYSL AviaSud Minstal (Built 1988)
12/G-BZHJ X’Air 582(7) (Built 2000)
13/G-TGTT Robinson R-44 II (Built 2002)
14/G-CDDI Thruster T600N 450 (2004)
G-ZAIR Zenair CH 601 HD (Built 1996)
Bloodhound missile is under restoration.
Next was a nice cup of Coffee in the Flying Club Café,
A nice bunch of people, I will return when I have more time.