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The station Motto is ''Aggressive in defence''. The badge is a stone tower surmounted by a mailed fist grasping three arrows. HISTORY Work on RAF Coltishall was started in 1938. The airfield was built at land near Scottow Hall. The station would have been named after the nearest railway station, which would have made it "RAF Buxton", but to avoid possible confusion with Buxton, Derbyshire , it was named after Coltishall instead. The airfield was completed and entered service in May 1940 as a fighter base. It later became home to night fighters. At the same time the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm operated aircraft from RAF Coltishall over the North Sea . At the end of the war Coltishall was briefly given over to Polish squadrons until they returned home. The first two squadrons to disband, No. 16 Squadron RAF and 54 Squadron RAF , did so on 11 March 2005 . The final Jaquar squadrons departed on 1 April 2006, when No. 41 Squadron RAF was disbanded and No. 6 Squadron RAF transferred to RAF Coningsby . COLTISHALL AIRCRAFT Some 40 plus different aircraft have been operated out of Coltishall at some point in its history, among these:
operated by Detachments from other squadrons
Air/sea Rescue squadron detachments
operated by Fleet Air Arm
As home to the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight , a sole Avro Lancaster bomber operated out of Coltishall post war COLTISHALL SQUADRONS Current Squadrons (April 2005) Former Squadrons
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