Former Royal Air Force base in the Borders of Scotland
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RAF Fighter Command * No. 9 Group RAF * No. 81 (OTU) Group RAF
Site history
Built
1917 (1917)1941/42
Built by
WW2: James Miller & Partners Ltd
In use
1917-1919 (1919) April 1942 – March 1946
Battles/wars
First World War European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
112 metres (367 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
07/25
Tarmac
00/00
Tarmac
Royal Air Force Charterhall or more simply RAF Charterhall is a former Royal Air Force station located in the Scottish Borders and the historic county of Berwickshire between the village of Greenlaw and Duns. It was originally a First World War landing ground named Eccles Toft. The airfield was reconstructed in 1942 and was used mainly by No. 54 Operational Training Unit during Second World War. The RAF left in 1947 and the airfield was officially closed.
The location was then left for agricultural use before becoming a motor racing track in 1952. Various forms of motorsport took place at Charterhall, including Formula Two, Formula Libre and Formula Junior with drivers such as Jim Clark, Sir Jackie Stewart and Sir Stirling Moss all having competed there until motor racing ceased at the airfield in 1964.[2] However, in the recent years, the Border Ecosse Car Club have organised the "Charterhall Stages Rally" at the airfield which also ceased in 2013.[3]
The airfield is now sometimes used as a private airstrip, however it does not have any basic maintenance or refueling facilities and its use is very limited.[4]
^ abFalconer 2012, p. 63.
^"Charterhall circuit". The Racing Line. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^"End of an era for Charterhall circuit". The Berwickshire News. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^"Charterhall Airfield landing information". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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