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| Boxted, Essex in England | |||||||||||
 Boxted Airfield - 10 May 1946. As with many wartime airfields, public rights of way were arbitrarily closed or diverted. A year after the war ended, Park Lane was still cut in the north by the fuel dump and the 22 end of the main runway. | |||||||||||
  RAF Boxted Shown within Essex  RAF Boxted RAF Boxted (the United Kingdom) | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°56′16″N 000°55′55″E / 51.93778°N 0.93194°E | ||||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||||
| Code | BX | ||||||||||
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| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force United States Army Air Forces | ||||||||||
| Controlled by | Eighth Air Force Ninth Air Force RAF Fighter Command | ||||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||||
| Built | 1943 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1943 - 1947 | ||||||||||
| Battles/wars | European theatre of World War II | ||||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||||
| Elevation | 12 metres (39 ft) AMSL | ||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Boxted or more simply RAF Boxted is a former Royal Air Force station located 4 miles (6.4 km) north-northeast of Colchester, Essex England.
Opened in 1943, it was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). RAF Boxted has the distinction of having been the airfield for the two most successful USAAF fighter groups in air-to-air combat. After the war it was used by the Royal Air Force for jet aircraft testing. It was closed in 1947.
Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields. It also has a small grass private airstrip and a museum which opened in 2011.