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During the Cold War, from 1960 to 1983, the airfield was the home of 112 Signals Unit Stornoway (RAF). NATO aircraft used the airport for missions over the North Atlantic and for stopovers en route to Greenland and the United States. [citation needed] Nowadays the airfield is mainly used for domestic passenger services.
Royal Air Force Station Stornoway, [1] more commonly known as RAF Stornoway [4] is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station and aerodrome near the burgh of Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, in the Western Isles of Scotland, operating from 1940 to 1945, and subsequently from 1982 to 1998. Its motto was 'Lead and Guide'.
Stornoway Town Hall. The town was founded by Vikings in the early 9th century, [8] with the Old Norse name Stjórnavágr.The settlement grew up around a sheltered natural harbour and became a hub for people from all over the island, who travelled to Stornoway either by family boat or by horse-drawn coach, for onward travel to and trade with the rest of Scotland and further afield.
112 Signals Unit, RAF Stornoway (112 S.U.) was a classified Royal Air Force (RAF) Electronic countermeasures (ECM) measurement and evaluation unit based at Stornoway Airport on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. [1] It was an RAF Bomber Command Headquarters directly administered unit established during the height of the Cold War. [2]
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) (Scottish Gaelic: Puirt-adhair na Gàidhealtachd is nan Eilean Earranta) is a company based at Inverness Airport that owns and operates 11 airports in the Scottish Highlands, the Northern Isles and the Western Isles. [1] [2]
Stornoway Airport; Sumburgh Airport; T. Tiree Airport; W. Wick Airport This page was last edited on 13 March 2016, at 22:44 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
After the Second World War, the aerodrome of RNAS Hatston, became Kirkwall's main civil airport and was served by both Allied Airways and Scottish Airways, which were absorbed by British European Airways (BEA) in 1947. By 1948 BEA was operating Douglas Dakota transport aircraft which were deemed too large to use the runways safely.
ICAO IATA Airport name Community Province or territory Notes EBBE: Beauvechain Air Base: Beauvechain: EBBL: Kleine Brogel Air Base: Kleine Brogel