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East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Hangar 100/ii
Aircraft Hangar (20th Century)
Site Name East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Hangar 100/ii
Classification Aircraft Hangar (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Museum Of Flight
Canmore ID 234208
Site Number NT57NE 72.05
NGR NT 55100 78346
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/234208
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NE 72.05 55100 78346
Information transferred from cancelled site NT57NE 196
Sitauted within the Museum of Flight buildings is an Air Ministry, pre-war c.1938) Callendar-Hamilton aircraft hangars. The hangar is visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3041-3049,4041-4049, flown 26 August 1943).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
External Reference (29 November 1990)
Air Ministry, circa 1938. Pre-war, Callendar-Hamilton aircraft hangars. Grid
elevations of framed corrugated sheet metal, painted black, supported by
raking struts. Framed, wheeled 2-leaf doors to gable ends with guide rails and
eaves girder.
INTERIOR: supported by light steel framework of stanchions and roof
trusses of scissor brace construction. Glazed with single rows of anti-actinic glass.
Hangar 1 was re-clad in 1987-8 to serve as a display area for the Museum of Flight. Hangar II was re-roofed in 1987, currently serving as DAFS stores.
Hangar III was re-roofed in 1984-5 and is also used as DAFS stores.
The Hangars are listed as essential components of the airfield complex, each hangar is accompanied by a nearby barrel-vaulted Nissen Hut, nos 187/17, 188/33, 186/45 and 93/41.
Information from Historic Scotland, 29th November 1990
