Royal Air Force Tern Hill, or more simply RAF Tern Hill, (ICAO: EGOE) was a Royal Air Force station at Ternhill in Shropshire, England, near the towns of Newport and Market Drayton.
It is predominantly used as a relief landing ground for helicopters of the No 1 Flying Training School, based at RAF Shawbury.
[4] The last two squadrons which were posted here had a status of cadre: The land was sold off in 1922 for use as a race horse stable.
78 Squadron RAF which flew from Tern Hill as an detachment flying the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley IVA from June 1939 until August 1939.
[10] During that period, which covered the Battle of Britain, the airfield was attacked by the Luftwaffe, when 10 bombs were dropped in July 1940 without causing casualties.
131 Squadron RAF which arrived on 6 August 1941 with their Spitfire IA and IIA's before leaving on 27 September 1941.
6 Flying Training School RAF[16] equipped with North American Harvards, receiving Percival Prentices in late 1948 and from July 1953 Percival Provost T1 piston engine training aircraft replaced both types.
[17] Tern Hill was one of the RAF stations that provided the first stage of the, then, new Provost/de Havilland Vampire pilot training programme.
3 Mobile Glider Servicing Party was posted to Tern Hill to prepare to assist No.
However, their stay was short: on 8 October 1976 the unit was posted elsewhere and the site was used by as a relief landing ground (RLG) which lasted until 30 March 1997.