Brackla Airfield

NH85SE 63.00 Centred 8573 5194

N.B. The extreme northern part of the airfield falls in Croy and Dalcross parish.

NH85SE 63.01 Centred NH 8685 5112 Military camp

NH85SE 63.02 Centred NH 8690 5150 Military camp

Used as a Relief Landing Ground for Dalcross (NH75SE 31), opening during 1941, the airfield later was supplied with wire mesh runways and four hangars. Only a few huts survive today.

D J Smith 1983.

This airfield was situated in an area to the NW of Brackla House and Brackla farmsteading. The airfield had grass runways and a few buildings still survive around the perimeter. The permeter trackways are depicted on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 scale map (1982).

J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 65

Brackla airfield is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK184, 1383-1387, flown 9 October 1946) which show the full extent of the grass runways, hangars and dispersed camps. The photographs also show that the airfield was, at this date, being used as a disposal point for Halifax bombers of which well over a hundred are visible dispersed over the airfield. All four type T2 hangars can be seen along with the technical area now occupied by the Royal Brackla Distillery (NH85SE 45). The bomb store was situated to the SW (map sheet NH85SW).

The airfield is depicted on the current OS digital 1:2500 scale map which shows most of the perimeter taxiways and dispersal points.

Vertical air photographs taken in 1947 (CPE/Scot/UK 254, 3173-3176, flown 9 August 1947) show that little had changed by this date, complete abandonment occurring in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2004

NH 8573 5194 Site identified as part of a desk based assessment and walk over survey.

Jacobs Babtie, 2005.