airfield museum and group details

BOXTED AIRFIELD HISTORICAL GROUP

The group based in Colchester Essex was formed in the year 2000 by Richard Turner. Richard has researched the history of Boxted airfield since 1995 and starting in January 1999 staged exhibitions with the material collected.
There was a lot of local interest and he decided if this project was going to continue more help was needed, so after a meeting of enthusiasts the first committee was formed in February 2000.

Membership now stands at 150 members world wide, including a number of airfield veterans both American service men and RAF personnel, who were based at Boxted. The group holds regular meetings with guest speakers, film evenings etc. Anne the secretary organises coach trips and outings to various museums, events etc. Full details can be found on the “group events” page. We would welcome your comments on the layout and information contained in this site, please use the comments form below left.

Boxted Airfield Veterans

We offer free life membership to any personnel who served at Boxted, whether it was with the US Army Air Corps or the RAF.

You will receive four newsletters a year these will keep you up to date with the group’s activities they also have historical articles.

If you would like to become a member, just fill in your name and address and email if you have one.

We can assure you this information will not be passed on to anyone else.

Airfield Museum latest news

In the last 12 months we have become a registered charity and our application to the Heritage Lottery fund has been successful. Now we can push on with the construction of the nissen hut exhibition space. Below is a picture of our nearly completed visitor centre on the museum site.

Updated 1st October 2008

Refurbishment of airfield memorial

During 2007 a grant was given to Langham

Parish Council to repair the village war

memorial, included in the application was a

request for money to refurbish the airfield

memorial. Our group was asked if we

would like to be involved in the

design process, after some deliberation

we suggested a wall should be built about 5’

high around the present monument, this

was agreed by the Parish Council.

Carved into the granite are the names

of the American units and the dates

they were at Boxted, also details of the

RAF use of the field. The refurbishment was completed in April 2008.

The airfield museum is expected to open in 2010. If you give us your email address we will send you the opening date when known. We will not pass on emails to anyone else