Coltishall Squadron Locations

[RJ79]

I think these ‘pens’ date from WW2 and have been afforded heritage status (from memory) and can’t be touched

[tornado17]

Revetments. Can't recall seeing them used looking from the outside but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Could you explain what you mean by pens? It just that I've never heard of them when I was there, hopefully I'm not appearing as a thickie here!!

I'm sorry if they aren't called that, think I heard it somewhere once. What I mean is the parking bays that appear to accommodate one single aircraft with a blast wall either side of the parking slot. They can bee seen on the western end of the runway and on the south side of the runway also.

They were revetments and during my short time there, we, 54, did use them for a small exercise in 1990. I’m not sure how often they got used though.

[Weazel69]

I left Colt before 16 arrived. The squadrons did use the pans as per photo, but 6 had spare space as well as the pan they used.
Widening the scope; was there a designated area for visiting a/c? I remember the visiting Aussie F111 in 1977 parked on 41's pan and Nord 262s and French Jags seemed to park nearest where they were going.
The SCANG visit in 1978 saw them parking their RF4s on the 41 pan as they needed access to the RIC.

These RF4C's were from the 363rdTRW JO on the Deployment "Coronet Heron" - NOT SCANG

[22A]

I left Colt before 16 arrived. The squadrons did use the pans as per photo, but 6 had spare space as well as the pan they used.
Widening the scope; was there a designated area for visiting a/c? I remember the visiting Aussie F111 in 1977 parked on 41's pan and Nord 262s and French Jags seemed to park nearest where they were going.
The SCANG visit in 1978 saw them parking their RF4s on the 41 pan as they needed access to the RIC.

These RF4C's were from the 363rdTRW JO on the Deployment "Coronet Heron" - NOT SCANG

I used the acronym SCANG as we were informed they were the South Carolina Air National Guard. They took one of the "RAF Coltishall >" road signs back home with them.

[Weazel69]

I left Colt before 16 arrived. The squadrons did use the pans as per photo, but 6 had spare space as well as the pan they used.
Widening the scope; was there a designated area for visiting a/c? I remember the visiting Aussie F111 in 1977 parked on 41's pan and Nord 262s and French Jags seemed to park nearest where they were going.
The SCANG visit in 1978 saw them parking their RF4s on the 41 pan as they needed access to the RIC.

These RF4C's were from the 363rdTRW JO on the Deployment "Coronet Heron" - NOT SCANG

I used the acronym SCANG as we were informed they were the South Carolina Air National Guard. They took one of the "RAF Coltishall >" road signs back home with them.

No 22A you were incorrectly informed as the 157thTFS - South Carolina ANG SC would have been flying the A7 in those days.1978 thats a few years back now

[DaleRFU]

Thank you all for the information, it's all very useful.

Regards
Dale

[jagnut]

The blast walls were built in the late fifties. During the Jaguar era they were extensively used during exercises as they could simulate the confines of working in hardened aircraft shelters that would be used by the Squadrons when deployed to their war bases, Tirstrup in Denmark for 6 and 54 Sqns and Bardufoss in Norway for 41. The blast wall revetments on the eastern side of the site are now English Heritage scheduled monuments as is a well preserved second world war fighter pen on the northern side.