Type Military In use 1940-1946 (1946) Address Duns TD11 3RE, UK Owner Air Ministry | Controlled by Royal Air Force Battles/wars Second World War Year built 1940 Garrison RAF Fighter Command | |
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Ww2 airfield raf charterhall richard hilary stationed here photo s taken 1982
RAF Charterhall is a former Royal Air Force airfield, beside the B6460 near the village of Greenlaw in Berwickshire, Scotland. The airfield was used by No. 54 Operational Training Unit RAF.
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- Ww2 airfield raf charterhall richard hilary stationed here photo s taken 1982
- Hillary memorial
- References
The location now operates as a private airstrip.
The site was also used as a motor racing track between 1952 and 1964.
Hillary memorial
Battle of Britain pilot Richard Hillary, author of The Last Enemy, was killed with his observer Sergeant Wilfred Fison when their Bristol Blenheim aircraft, flying from Charterhall, crashed at nearby Crunklaw Farm on 8 January 1943 in a night-flying accident. A memorial to Hillary was unveiled at Charterhall by the Duke of Kent on 6 November 2001. The memorial also remembers all the aircrew from Charterhall who died in the Second World War.