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East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Hanger 99/iii
Aircraft Hangar (20th Century)
Site Name East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Hanger 99/iii
Classification Aircraft Hangar (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Museum Of Flight
Canmore ID 234209
Site Number NT57NE 72.06
NGR NT 55265 78235
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/234209
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NE 72.06 55265 78235
Information transferred from cancelled site NT57NE 198
Situated within the buildings that make up the Museum of Flight is an Air Ministry, pre-war (c.1938) Callendar-Hamilton aircraft hangar. The hangar, one of four, is visible on RAF WW II vertcial 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
