Transferred to the British Army to become Leuchars Station.
Airfield maintained as a Relief Landing Ground.
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: ADX, ICAO: EGQL, WMO: 03171
Elevation
12 metres (39 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
09/27
2,589 metres (8,494 ft) Asphalt
04/22
747 metres (2,451 ft) Asphalt
Royal Air Force Leuchars or more simply RAF Leuchars (IATA: ADX, ICAO: EGQL) is a former Royal Air Force station located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. Throughout the Cold War and beyond, the station was home to fighter aircraft which policed northern UK airspace. The station ceased to be an RAF station at 12:00 hrs on 31 March 2015 when it became Leuchars Station and control of the site was transferred to the British Army. The RAF temporarily returned to Leuchars between August and October 2020 to carry out QRA (I) responsibilities while runway works were being carried out at RAF Lossiemouth.
^Birtles 2012, p. 37.
^"Defence Estates Development Plan (DEDP) 2009 – Annex A" (PDF). Government of the United Kingdom. 3 July 2009. p. 2. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
Royal Air Force Leuchars or more simply RAFLeuchars (IATA: ADX, ICAO: EGQL) is a former Royal Air Force station located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east...
Leuchars Station (IATA: ADX, ICAO: EGQL) is a British Army installation located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland, near to the historic...
local flying conditions. Since the closure of RAF Leuchars in 2015, Lossiemouth is the only operational RAF station in Scotland and is one of two main operating...
stood up at RAFLeuchars on 6 September 2010, making Leuchars the second RAF base to operate the Typhoon. On 20 March 2011 ten Typhoons from RAF Coningsby...
Fleet Air Arm, with twenty of these ending up at RAFLeuchars, and Ark Royal's Phantoms ended up at Leuchars in 1978. HMS Eagle was never converted to Phantom...
were handed over to the RAF and used to form a second squadron at Leuchars. At the time, 111 Squadron was stationed at Leuchars operating the FGR.2 version...
of RAFLeuchars and the runway resurfacing at RAF Waddington. The latter events led to the ending of air shows at those stations. The event at RAF Cosford...
Rescue Force was established in 1986 from the helicopter elements of the RAF Marine Branch which was disbanded that year. The Force supported search and...
Commanding No. 13 Squadron RAF. In January 2013, Mayhew was appointed Air Officer Scotland and Officer Commanding RAFLeuchars. One of his main duties was...
2014, with 1 Sqn moving in August 2014. QRA North was moved from RAFLeuchars to RAF Lossiemouth in September 2014. The first QRA sortie from Lossiemouth...
Unit RAF caught fire on landing at RAF Coltishall and was not repaired. 7 September 1967 - Lightning F6 XR766 of No. 23 Squadron RAF from RAFLeuchars was...
Lyneham ended their role from 1 March 1991, leaving Brize Norton, Manston, Leuchars and St Mawgan with the role. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron; a current Tornado pilot at RAFLeuchars said that the squadron struggled to get four aircraft into the air, at...
Phantom FGR.2. The disbandment of No. 228 OCU on 31 January 1991 at RAFLeuchars, saw the reformation of the Phantom Training Flight as part of No. 74(F)...
23 Squadron RAF : April 1957 to September 1964, initially based at RAF Horsham St Faith and then at RAF Coltishall, moving to RAFLeuchars in March 1963...
Jaguars." Flight Daily News, 16 November 1997. Jackson 1992, p. 95. "RAFLeuchars Welcomes the Typhoon." Archived 8 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine...
aircraft back to RAF Marham (its point of origin). 2009 2 July 2009 - ZE982, a Tornado F3 aircraft (of No. 43 Squadron RAF) from RAFLeuchars, crashed into...
Air Squadron – RAF Wittering East Midlands Universities Air Squadron – RAF Cranwell East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron – Leuchars Station Universities...
Lockheed Lodestar G-AGDE crashed into the sea off Leuchars, Scotland on a flight from RAFLeuchars to Stockholm-Bromma Airport. The accident killed all...
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