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Leuchars Airport

Leuchars Station is a British Army installation located in , , on the east coast of , near to the historic town of . Formerly RAF Leuchars, it was the second most northerly air defence station in the .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: British Army installation and airfield in Fife, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “ADX”, “EGQL”, “Leuchars Station”, “RAF Leuchars”, and “Royal Air Force station Leuchars”
  • Address: Leuchars, KY16 0JX

Places of Interest

Highlights include Earlshall Castle and Leuchars railway station.

House
Photo: ArchHist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a restored 16th century courtyard castle, near Leuchars Station about 1⁄2 mile east of , , . It has been described as “a perfect example of a 16/17th century mansion”.

Railway station
Photo: Lesbardd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the towns of and in , . The station is the last northbound stop before . The station was built as Leuchars Junction station for the route over the Tay Bridge to Dundee, the previous Leuchars station being on the line to .

Church
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Romanesque church located in , , Scotland. It is a Category A listed building and remains in use as a Church of Scotland parish church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leuchars and Guardbridge.

Town
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town and parish near the north-east coast of in . The civil parish has a population of 5,754 and an area of 13,357 acres.

Village
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is a town in the north-east of , on the east coast of . It is approximately 3 miles north-west of , and is situated on the estuary of the River Eden, at the junction of the A91 road between St Andrews and and the A919/A914 road between and the Tay Road Bridge.

Village
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Scotland. It is 7 miles from the town of and near to the villages of , , and . Army base Leuchars Station is also nearby.

Leuchars Airport

Latitude
56.37559° or 56° 22′ 32″ north
Longitude
-2.8572° or 2° 51′ 26″ west
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
Operator
British Army
IATA airport code
ADX
ICAO airport code
EGQL
United Nations Location Code
GB SNW
Open location code
9C8V94GV+64
Open­Street­Map ID
way 50319020
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
6296639
Wiki­data ID
Q7275440
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Leuchars Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Leuchars”
  • Chinese: “盧卡斯基地”
  • Chinese: “盧卡斯基地的滑鐵盧兵營”
  • Chinese: “盧赫斯皇家空軍基地”
  • Finnish: “RAF Leuchars”
  • Indonesian: “ADX”
  • Indonesian: “EGQL”
  • Japanese: “ルーカーズ空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “ロイチャーズ空軍基地”
  • Malay: “Pangkalan Udara Leuchars”
  • Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Leuchars”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “RAF Leuchars”
  • Norwegian: “RAF Leuchars”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی لوچارس”
  • Swedish: “Leuchars (flygplats)”
  • Swedish: “Leuchars Station”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате лучорс”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Eden Estuary Local Nature Reserve and Reres Wood.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leuchars Airport”. Photo: John Brailsford, CC BY-SA 2.0.