Archaeology Notes

Event ID 847876

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Two conjoined aircraft hangars are visible on RAF WW II and postwar vertical air photographs (NLA 71, 3049-3053, 4051-4054, flown 9 September 1943 and CPE/Scot/UK/290, Pt.III, 5198-5204, flown 2 September 1947).

The larger of the two is a B1 type, designed by the engineers T Bedford as a aircraft repair shed, mainly for heavy bombers. This type first appeared in 1942 and were larger than the Bellman hangar which was also a temporary and transportable type. The smaller hangar was a Super Robin type.

More recent vertical air photography (All Scotland Survey, 51888109-110, flown 14, 18 June 1988), shows that the aircraft hangars survive within a group of sheds annotated as 'grain store on the current OS 1:2500 scale digital map.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005