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RAF Coltishall
Scottow, Norfolk in England
Image of the various badges painted on the central aircraft hangar. These depict the final full capacity status of RAF Coltishall. From left to right: No.6 Sqn, RAF Coltishall station badge, No.16 Sqn – No.41 Sqn, No.1 Group Headquarters RAF, No.54 Sqn.
Site sold for civilian uses including HM Prison Bure, a solar farm and Scottow Enterprise Park
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II Cold War
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: CLF, ICAO: EGYC, WMO: 03495
Elevation
17 metres (56 ft)[2] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
04/22
2,286 metres (7,500 ft) grooved asphalt
Data relevant to operational period
UK Conservation Area
Official name
RAF Coltishall
Designated
September 2010
Scheduled monument
Official name
World War II fighter pen, Cold War blast walls and associated remains
Designated
7 March 2008
Reference no.
1021425
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name
Officer's Mess, Former RAF Coltishall, Norfolk
Designated
16 October 2017
Reference no.
1424475
Royal Air Force Coltishall, more commonly known as RAF Coltishall (IATA: CLF, ICAO: EGYC), is a former Royal Air Force station located 10 miles (16 kilometres) north-north-east of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, which operated from 1939 to 2006.[3]
It was a fighter airfield in the Second World War and afterwards, a station for night fighters, then ground attack aircraft until closure.
After longstanding speculation, the future of the station was sealed once the Ministry of Defence announced that the Eurofighter Typhoon, a rolling replacement aircraft, displacing the ageing SEPECAT Jaguar, would not be located there. The last of the Jaguar squadrons left on 1 April 2006, and the station finally closed, one month early and £10 million under budget, on 30 November 2006; 17 years ago (2006-11-30).
The station motto was Aggressive in Defence.[4] The station badge was a stone tower surmounted by a mailed fist grasping three bind-bolts (blunt arrows), which symbolised a position of strength in defence of the homeland, indicative of the aggressive spirit which Coltishall fighter aircraft were prepared to shoot down the enemy.
^Birtles 2012, p. 30.
^ abFalconer 2012, p. 68.
^Official Commemorative Magazine: Royal Air Force Coltishall, 65th Anniversary, 'Aggressive in Defence' 1940-2005
^Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 7. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
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