    royal air force station coltishall, more commonly known as raf coltishall , is a former royal air force station located  north-north-east of norwich, in the english county of norfolk, east anglia, which operated from 1938 to 2006.official commemorative magazine: royal air force coltishall, 65th anniversary, 'aggressive in defence' 1940-2005 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 typhoon, a rolling replacement aircraft, displacing the ageing jaguars, would not be posted there. the last of the jaguar squadrons left on 1 april 2006 and the station finally closed, one month early and Â£10 million under budget, on 30 november 2006. the station motto was aggressive in defence. the station badge is a stone tower surmounted by a mailed fist grasping three bind bolts (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. ==history== ===second world war=== work on raf coltishall was started in february 1939. the airfield, then known as scottow aerodrome, was initially built as a bomber station, on land near scottow hall. following the established tradition, the station would have been named after the nearest railway station, which would have made it "raf buxton", but to avoid possible confusion with the town of buxton in derbyshire, it was named a
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