Coltishall Sentry Traditional Cache
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This is an old relic from the 40's sited near the former Royal
Air Force base RAF Cotishall.
Work on RAF Coltishall was started in February 1939. The
airfield, then known as Scottow Aerodrome, was initially built as a
bomber base, 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 Buxton,
Derbyshire, it was named after the local village of Coltishall
instead.
The airfield was completed and entered service in May 1940 as a
fighter base, and afterwards a base 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 based 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.
This is a quick cache and dash, and cache is a small clip-top
plastic container with a note book , pencil and a few swaps.
Please replace the cache out of sight and where originally
hidden.
First to find Carpetbomber 29th May 2010
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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