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Aviation at Leuchars dates back to 1911 with a balloon squadron of the Royal Engineers setting up a training camp in Tentsmuir Forest.They were soon joined in the skies by the 'string and sealing wax' aircraft of the embryonic Royal Flying Corps; such aircraft favoured the sands of St Andrews, where not the least of the attractions was the availability of fuel from local garages.
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 town of St Andrews. Formerly RAF Leuchars, it was the second most northerly air defence station in the United Kingdom (the most northerly being RAF Lossiemouth). The station ceased to be an RAF ...
2 July 2009 - ZE982, a Tornado F3 aircraft (of No. 43 Squadron RAF) from RAF Leuchars, crashed into a hillside at Glen Kinglas, 1,198 feet (365 m) above sea level. The other aircraft in the sortie had to manoeuvre to avoid the resultant fireball and was able to safely return to RAF Leuchars.
Leuchars (pronounced / ˈ l uː x ər s / ⓘ or / ˈ l uː k ər z /; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a town and parish near the north-east coast of Fife in Scotland. The civil parish has a population of 5,754 (in 2011) [ 2 ] and an area of 13,357 acres (5,405 hectares).
Royal Air Force Training Base, Leuchars (1925-35) became No. 1 Flying Training School RAF [42] Royal Aircraft Establishment (1918-88) became Royal Aerospace Establishment [ 46 ] Royal Aircraft Factory [ citation needed ]
No. 612 Squadron RAF was formed on 1 June 1937 at RAF Dyce as an army co-operation unit of the Auxiliary Air Force and was initially equipped with two-seat Avro Tutor training aircraft. In December 1937 it had received two-seat Hawker Hector Army co-operation aircraft, which were retained when the squadron converted from the Army Co-operation ...
The squadron was formed on 19 October 1942 [2] [3] [6] from 'H' and 'L' flights of No. 1 PRU [2] [7] at RAF Leuchars as a photoreconnaissance unit with the de Havilland Mosquito. It operated from Leuchars to carry out missions over Norway and Germany , while a detachment based at RAF Benson carried out similar missions over France and Italy .
The squadron moved to RAF Leuchars, Fife, in 1950 and in 1954 became the first to receive the Hawker Hunter F.1, replacing the Meteor F.8. [14] No. 43 (Fighter) Squadron began receiving its first Hunter F.4s on 24 February 1956, before receiving four Hunter F.6s on 2 November 1956 however these were only operated until early December. [ 15 ]