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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.
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 ...
RAF Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: 14 July 1951: 14 October 1951: RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland: 14 October 1951: 12 November 1952: RAF Edzell, Angus, Scotland: 12 November 1952: 10 March 1957: RAF Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: 1997: RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland: 2014 Now an Army Base - Leuchars Station where No 612 Sqn are still based
RAF Lakatamia, Nicosia District: Cyprus [26] RAF Leuchars, Fife: Scotland: Lisanelly Barracks, Omagh, County Tyrone: Northern Ireland [6] Long Pasia (Long Pa Sia), Sabah: British Malaya (Malaysia) 1960s [27] Magherafelt, County Londonderry: Northern Ireland [28] McMunn Barracks, Colchester, Essex: England [29] Airfield Camp, Netheravon ...
No. 125 Expeditionary Air Wing is a former deployable Expeditionary Air Wing of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The current wing was established on 1 April 2006 the wing has history dating back to May 1944:
Its headquarters is at RAF Leuchars, Fife, and has units across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland. Its regular army paired unit is 39 Engineer Regiment , at Kinloss, Moray. History
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 .
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).