Welcome to Royal Air Force Leuchars. The Station is primarily responsible for maintaining Quick Reaction Alert (Interceptor) North, providing crews and aircraft at high states of readiness 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to police UK airspace and to intercept unidentifed aircraft.

The Station is home to 6 Squadron, No 6 Force Protection Wing HQ, 58 RAF Regiment Squadron, No 612 (County of Aberdeen) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force (the Air Transportable Surgical Squadron), 71 Engineer Regiment (Volunteers), the East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron and Number 12 Air Experience Flight.

Our personnel are engaged in operations and deployments in Afghanistan and the Falkland Islands. The excellent contribution of RAF Leuchars’ personnel, both at home and abroad, provides critical support to the delivery of the RAF’s operational tasks.

RAF Leuchars is on the Northern bank of the River Eden in the Kingdom of Fife, 6 miles from St Andrews and 8 miles from Dundee. It is approx 1 hour by train to the city of Edinburgh; there is a railway station co-located with RAF Leuchars. RAF Leuchars and Fife are rich with opportunities, what we make of them is up to us. We are responsible for being valuable members of our local community and take pride in our good relations with our neighbours.