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.

The station was constructed during late 1938 and opened early in 1939 initially as a relief landing ground (RLG) for the training facility at RAF Cranwell although quite quickly.

The nearby Coleby Hall, built in 1628,[4] was requisitioned by the Air Ministry for the duration of the war and adopted as the station's officers’ mess.

307 Polish Night Fighter Squadron[6] In 1751 a 100 ft (30 m) high landmark and former inland lighthouse known as the Dunston Pillar had been erected less than a mile north of the station on Tower Road to aid travellers crossing the wild heathland south of Lincoln.

For the remainder of the war Coleby Grange remained as the only local station still operating in the night fighter role across Lincolnshire.

[9] The squadron was under the command of the US Ninth Air Force from its headquarters at St Vincents, a large mansion in the centre of Grantham.

Immediately after the war the RAF mounted an annual series of air displays to commemorate the Battle of Britain.

The station was mothballed and placed on a care and maintenance basis from 1947 until 1958 when it was reactivated as an IRBM missile facility.

Several Lincoln residents can remember the Coleby Grange missiles standing erect on their mobile launchers and ready to fire.

The original air operations control tower and part of a Thor blast wall still stand in view of the A15 in derelict conditions.

[16] In the same graveyard is the final resting place of the poet John Gillespie Magee Jr., author of the classic aviation poem "High Flight".