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Description: | PRN 46591
Initially Donna Nook was used as a bombing range and relief landing ground at North Coates from 1927. The bombing range included more than seven miles of foreshore south of Donna Nook Beacon and extended out to sea some 8000 yards. There were 5 quadrant towers along the shoreline, used to record fall of shot and bombing scores for the attacking aircraft. Later Donna Nook functioned for a while as a decoy airfield for RAF North Coates. It was a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War (PRN 46592).
A few buildings and a section of perimeter track / runway are all that survive of the former RAF Donna Nook. The name lives on in the ‘new’ RAF Donna Nook which uses the adjacent sandflats as a NATO air weapons range.{1}{2}{3}{4} | Subjects: | General Archaeology Air Force | Temporal: | 1927 - 1942 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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