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Earls Colne

Major
Also known as: Earls Colne Business Park / RAF Earls Colne / The Essex Golf & Country Club / USAAF Station 358
County: Essex
Current Status: Aviation / Industry / Leisure activity
Date: Opened May 1943
Current Use: Active
Used By: RAF / Civil / USAAF
Landing Surface Types: Paved, later paved/unpaved
Aircraft Roles: Air ambulance / Airborne forces/transport (main role) / Bomber (main role) / Communications / General aviation (main role)

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/09/2011):

  • 94th Bomb Group Association
  • Anglo Marketing & Shipping Services Limited
  • Arturas Ltd
  • Asteroid Engineering Ltd
  • Attitudes PMC Ltd
  • Balsa Sales Ltd
  • Baxters Food Group
  • Baystart Ltd
  • Bock (UK) Ltd
  • Britannia Storage Systems Limited
  • Cheeky Monkeys Day Nursery Ltd
  • CR Timber Engineering Ltd 
  • Data Serve Direct Ltd
  • David Watson Transport Ltd
  • Direct Transportation Ltd 
  • Earl's Colne Golf and Country Club
  • Earls Colne Library
  • Earl's Colne Parish Council
  • Electro Assembly Services Ltd
  • Euroline Sales & Marketing
  • Europa Classics
  • European Care Assist
  • Eurovudas Ltd
  • Fleetshield Services
  • Flight Timber Products Ltd
  • Flightworx Aviation Ltd
  • Ford SVP 
  • Fringe Benefits
  • Gigawave Ltd
  • Hawker Restorations Ltd
  • Honeywood Enterprises
  • Hullmatic Engineering Ltd
  • Jan Wright
  • Milbank Roofs Ltd t/a Milbank
  • Multitek Ltd
  • NC Cammack & Son Limited
  • Result Clothing
  • Special Vehicle Preparations Ltd
  • Stelstor Systems Ltd 
  • The Evergreen Clinic
  • Trane (Colchester) Ltd
  • Water Direct

Notable Past Associated Organisations:

  • Rebel Air Museum

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 38 Gp Comms Flight

  • 94th BG

  • No 296 Sqn

  • No 297 Sqn

  • 323rd BG

  • 331st BS
  • 332nd BS
  • 333rd BS
  • 410th BS
  • 453rd BS
  • 454th BS
  • 455th BS
  • 456th BS
  • Anglian Flight Centres
  • Bulldog Aviation

  • Essex Air Ambulance
  • Essex Flying School

  • Herts Air Ambulance
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Cessna 152 at Earls Colne, 21 February 2009. © Richard Flagg

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Piper PA-28R-201T Cherokee Arrow III at Earls Colne, 1 May 2017. © Richard Flagg

003Piper PA-28-161 Warrior ll (G-BSCV) - 1 May 2017.png

Piper PA-28-161 Warrior ll at Earls Colne, 1 May 2017. © Richard Flagg

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McDonnell Douglas MD-902 Explorer at Earls Colne, 1 May 2017. © Richard Flagg

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Various aircraft and buildings at Earls Colne, 28 July 2018.

Various shots of Earls Colne during the Second World War. Courtesy of British Pathé

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