The fighter station, RAF Coltishall, closed in 2006 and has now been converted into a solar farm. This scenery takes it back to its Jaguar hayday in 1985.
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The required libraries are all the Asobo standard airports, plus:
UK2000 Common Scenery = In the Free section of the MSFS Market Place
EGOV by Skell300 = https://flightsim.to/file/9361/egov-raf-valley-custom-built
EGDR by Superspud = https://flightsim.to/file/26191/egdr-rnas-culdrose-upgrade
EGYM by Nickb007 = https://flightsim.to/file/27131/raf-marham-egym
EGSU by ChicoMick = https://flightsim.to/file/28581/egsu-duxford-airfield-complete-edition
To see the Jaguar Statics you need to download:
https://militaryaiworks.com/download-hangar/file-library/download/96-official-maiw-conversion-packages/1508-maiw-nbai-sepecat-jaguar-conversion
Then convert the models using the Legacy Importer.
https://www.nexusmods.com/microsoftflightsimulator/mods/117
Royal Air Force Coltishall, more commonly known as RAF Coltishall (ICAO: EGYC), is a former Royal Air Force station located 10 miles (16 km) North-North-East of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, which operated from 1938 to 2006.
It was a fighter airfield in the Second World War and afterwards, a station for night fighters then ground attack aircraft until closure.
Postwar, the station was home to a variety of units and aircraft including de Havilland Mosquitos, Gloster Javelins and - from 1963 - the "Historic Aircraft Flight" (now known as the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight). RAF Coltishall became home to the RAF's first English Electric Lightning F.1s when No. 74 (Fighter) Squadron began to receive the jet in June 1960, after arriving the year before. No. 74 (F) Squadron relocated to RAF Leuchars in Scotland on 2 March 1964. No. 226 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) arrived at the base on 12 April 1964, tasked with training pilots how to fly the Lightning. The last Lightnings left Coltishall in September 1974 when No. 266 OCU departed.
The Lightnings were replaced by the Anglo-French SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1, with the first Jaguar unit, No. 54 (F) Squadron, arriving at Coltishall on 8 August 1974. They were soon joined by No. 6 Squadron who arrived at the base in November 1974, making the station exclusively home to the Jaguar in terms of fixed wing aircraft.
No. 41 (Designate) Squadron formed at RAF Coltishall on 1 October 1976 and worked up as a Jaguar unit until officially standing up on 1 April 1977, when the No. 41 Squadron operating the McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 at RAF Coningsby disbanded the previous day.
In 1990, all three based Jaguar units – Nos. 6, 41 and 54 Squadrons deployed to Muharraq Airfield, Bahrain, in preparation for Operation Granby due to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Coltishall eventually became the last surviving operational RAF airfield involved in the Battle of Britain, other than RAF Northolt, and a visible remnant in the form of a Second World War revetment still stands on the North-West taxiway and, together with one of the two sets of 1950s blast walls, is now a scheduled monument.
The UK's Ministry of Defence announced that the station would close by December 2006. The first two Jaguar squadrons to disband, No. 16 (R) Squadron and No. 54 (F) Squadron, did so on 11 March 2005. The final Jaguar squadrons departed on 1 April 2006, when No. 6 Squadron transferred to RAF Coningsby.
How do i get the Lighnings and the helicopter which are shown next to the hangar!
Ive downloaded all the required files plus I already have static lightnings in my community folder which i downloaded with your Binbrook 'A' Airfield.
Any advise would be appreciated
Cheers Frank
6 months ago
Frankinuk
AI problem sorted now. I forgot there were different settings for VR and PC. Thanks for your help.
2 years ago
Rabski
Hello. I tried turning off AI as suggested but no difference. If I am the only user to experience these problems, then it must be my computer but I dont have the knowledge to delve too deep into this, so I may have to live with it. Thank you.
2 years ago
Rabski
Hi. Could anyone give me a few hints to install the Jaguars please? I understand that I need to convert the FSX models using the Legacy Convertor. I have had limited success in converting some flying aircraft, but cant find tutorials for Static or AI aircraft. Can you tell me,
I used to be able to do these things in FSX but struggling with MSFS.
Thank you
2 years ago
The static aircraft are from MilitaryAIWorks (all converted from FSX models using MSFS Legacy Importer). In the legacy Importer, select your FSX a/c Directory {must be the folder that contains the aircraft.cfg file). Select the MSFS Community Directory, then click on the Import button. No need to worry about all the other tabs as they are for flying models, not static.
The static aircraft will be placed automatically into your Community folder.
There are no flight plans to worry about.
When you launch the Coltishall scenery, the static Jags will now be present.
2 years ago
Tag21
Rabski
Hi. Great Coltishall. Just one issue though. I have downloaded the additional files but no hangars. Can you tell me which files they should be in please? Thank you.
2 years ago
Hi Rabski,
Thank you for the donation.
The hangars should be in the Marham file which is listed in the notes, but are also present in the Scampton file :
https://flightsim.to/file/23137/egxp-raf-scampton-red-arrows-home-lincoln-lincolshire-england-uk
and the Shawbury file :
https://flightsim.to/file/5326/egos-raf-shawbury
Place the downloaded and uncompressed files into your Community folder.
2 years ago
Tag21
Rabski
The Coltishall scenery is great. Thanks for producing it.
I'm struggling to convert the Jaguar files up to MSFS which I would love to put in.
Is there an easy way?
2 years ago
steveb451
Another cracking piece! Thanks so much. Any chance of Alconbury? Loving the work!
2 years ago
nunny12345
Fantastic! I was working there in 1985!
2 years ago
Bumble
This is another great airfield, love the fact that it can be filled with cold war aircraft
would be even more authentic if the vehicles could revert to the same period all raf airfield vehicles were green with yellow stripe ,Melins should be yellow seaking and c130 should be k model ,this is just an observation. and no way wish to distract from your fantastic body of work .
looking forward to your next Airfield ? Brize Norton in the era of vc10s and tristars.
2 years ago
kerbgrinder
Fantastic Cracking work TAG21 - Now all i need is a jaguar for MSFS.
2 years ago
denteddutchess