RAF Ternhill
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RAF Ternhill | |||
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IATA: N/A - ICAO: EGOE | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Military | ||
Operator | Royal Air Force | ||
Serves | Ternhill | ||
Elevation AMSL | 272 ft (83 m) | ||
Coordinates | |||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
05/23 | 3,215 | 980 | Asphalt |
10/28 | 3,110 | 948 | Asphalt |
RAF Ternhill (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGOE) is a small Royal Air Force station at Ternhill in Shropshire, near the towns of Newport and Market Drayton. The station was a helicopter base. It is now principally used as an outpost for the tri-service helicopter training establishment at RAF Shawbury. Training flights use the airfield (as do gliders at the weekends) but many of the buildings and some local MOD housing (much of which was sold off, some people queueing for days to buy a property) are now part of the army base known as Clive Barracks(after Robert Clive - see Market Drayton) . Also houses VGS 632. used by the air training corps EC+SM (East Cheshire and South Manchester) wing and Staffordshire wing.
[edit] External link
- World Aero Data airport information for EGOE