Fife Flyers - RAF Leuchars Traditional Cache
Over the Fence: woooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
Fife Flyers - RAF Leuchars
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Part of the Fife Flyers series. Although Fife has no commercial airport the county has a long history with aviation, mainly military. Some of the airports and airfield in this series are still in use however the majority have now well disappeared with only remnants remaining of those days gone by in some cases you will just have to use your imagination. In all cases, airports and airfield were located on flat accessible land. Most of the caches in this series will be easy to get to and find.
RAF Leuchars has been a Military aviation based since 1911. Throughout the Second World War it was an 18 Group Coastal Command Station and today is still in use by the RAF as a fighter and rescue base.Squadrons stationed at RAF Leuchars • No: 224 Squadron. from 1938 • No: 233 Squadron. from 1938 • No: 235 Squadron. Jan to Feb 1943 • No: 236 Squadron. Feb to Jul 1942 • No: 320 Squadron. • No: 540 Squadron • No: 547 Squadron. Coastal Command.No. 540 Squadron was formed on 19 October 1942 from H and L Flights of the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, at Leuchars in Coastal Command. The 540's Mosquitoes carried out reconnaissance missions over Norway and a detachment at Benson undertook similar flights over France and Italy. No 540 Squadron was disbanded on 30 September 1946 and reformed after the war. Obviously being an operational RAF base I thought it prudent not to hide the cache too close to the base, can’t have innocent cachers ending up in the pokey under spying charges! I have placed the cache at a convenient viewing place. Hope you are there when the jets are flying, great to watch.The cache is a 35mm film canister, please remember to bring your own pen.
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