RAF Station Update
The News on the Closing of Royal Air Force Coltishall

Jaguar's farewell to bases in Norfolk
The pencil-thin shape of a Jaguar jet darted through British skies for the last time yesterday, bringing a proud era of aviation to end. A farewell flight by the warhorse warplane included a buzz over the Norfolk airbase which was its home for more than 30 years.
 

RAF Coltishal Gate Jaguar


41 Squadron Jaguar over Russian Bear RAF landing at Marham    Coltishall Jaguar 2006
The old and the new....a sad farewell

Jaguar at County Hall 3 20th May 2007

The gate sentinel in its new home
County Hall Norwich

 

 


With thanks to Mike who found this......................one that didn't make it


sonicbomb.com


 

Lancaster Mosquito Spitfire  Fly Past ! Fighter Command RAF Coltishall it took 66 years to get this picture

Phatom get fuel
Refuel on the way

 

 

Air UK Norwich

I am also proud to have had close links with the Air UK and had great experiences both on the ground and in the air, with thanks to the late great Harry Payne, Managing Director Air UK (Engineering) Ltd (now KLM) and Pat Scrase 737/767 Pilot with Air UK (Leisure) Ltd.

Air UK F100 Inaugural flight September1992
A picture of the Air UK Fokker 100 inaugural flight
15th. September 1992, London Stansted -Amsterdam

Air UK Beoing 737 - 400 at Stansted
Air UK Boeing 737 - 400
at Stansted and below the Flight Deck



 

Diamond Lil
Diamond Lil arives in Norwich

In the Early 90s I was pleased to be involved in supporting the team who brought Diamond Lil a 1940 Liberator to the UK from The Confederate Air Force base in Arizona for many emotional flypasts over the air fields of East Anglia