EGYC
RAF Coltishall
VFR
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Name
RAF Coltishall
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ICAO
EGYC
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- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
5:15 pm (GMT)
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Municipality
Norwich
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Coordinates
52° 45′ 16″ N 1° 21′ 25″ E
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Elevation
66 ft (20 m MSL)
About RAF Coltishall
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.
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 (2006-11-30).
The station motto was Aggressive in Defence. 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.