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Islay, Port Ellen Airfield

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Airfield (20th Century)

Site Name Islay, Port Ellen Airfield

Classification Airfield (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Glenegedale Airfield; Islay Airfield

Canmore ID 94297

Site Number NR35SW 17

NGR NR 3250 5150

NGR Description Centred NR 3250 5150

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/94297

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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General oblique aerial view of Port Ellen Airfield, taken from the WSW.
General oblique aerial view of Port Ellen Airfield, taken from the WSW.General oblique aerial view of Port Ellen Airport and Machrie Hotel with the golf course adjacent, taken from the SSW.General oblique aerial view of Port Ellen Airport and Machrie Hotel with the golf course adjacent, taken from the S.General oblique aerial view centred on the airfield, taken from the SSW.General oblique aerial view of Islay Airport (Port Ellen Airfield), taken from the WSW.Oblique aerial view of Port Ellen Airfield, looking SE.Scanned image of Luftwaffe vertical air photograph of part of Islay, showing the airfield.General oblique aerial view of Islay Airport (Port Ellen Airfield), taken from the SW.General oblique aerial view centred on the airfield, taken from the W.General oblique aerial view of Port Ellen Airport and Machrie Hotel with the golf course adjacent, taken from the SSW.Oblique aerial view.General oblique aerial view centred on the airfield, taken from the E.General oblique aerial view of Islay Airport (Port Ellen Airfield), taken from the SSW.View from S (possible) showing Loganair Short SD 230 aircraft on tarmacPort Ellen, Aerodrome, Islay, NR35SW 10, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kildalton And Oa
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR35SW 17.00 centred 3250 5150

NR35SW 17.01 NR 3319 5202 Operations Block

NR35SW 17.02 NR 3333 5192 Shooting Butt

NR35SW 17.03 NR 3290 5194 Gun-emplacement

NR35SW 17.04 NR 3310 5150 and NR 3314 5141 Gun-emplacements

NR35SW 17.05 NR 3466 5220 and NR 3467 5223 Building; Water Tank

NR35SW 17.06 NR 3185 5455 Building

NR35SW 17.07 NR 3416 5182 Engine House

Also known less frequently as Glenegedale or Islay, the airfield opened during 1940. In 1941, three runways in the special sand mix and bitumen reserved for boggy and ill-drained land were built, the first being competed during the summer of 1942.

The airfield passed to the Ministry of Aviation in 1947, sheduled services being operated to Campbeltown and Glasgow by BEA, later BA, and then transferred to Loganair in 1977. The original tower still survives in use and the operations block is now used commercially.

D J Smith 1983.

This site was recorded but not visited by Mr Guy.

J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Vol.1, 30-3.

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A data upgrade project to record war memorials.

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