Whitefield Airfield
Airfield (20th Century)
Site Name Whitefield Airfield
Classification Airfield (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Meikle Whitefield
Canmore ID 94612
Site Number NO13SE 34
NGR NO 1700 3449
NGR Description Centred NO 1700 3499
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/94612
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Cargill
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO13SE 34 centred 1700 3499
Opened late in 1939 as a satellite to Perth, a small grass runway airfield, It closed on July 9 1945, and the land reverted to farmland. Only the flight office survives as evidence of the airfields location.
D J Smith 1983
This airfield is situated between the A 93 and A 94 main roads and to the S of Meikle Whitefield. Nothing could be seen, apart from the former flight office at this location on the day of visit.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/9.
The airfield is visible on RAF WW II vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3077-3082, 4077-4082, flown 27 August 1943), which show the grass runwayed airfield and a small group of buildings and Nissen huts including the flight office grouped around the W side of Meikle Whitefield farmsteading (NO 1711 3471). The photographs also show a line of six blister hangars at the edge of the field on the S side of the airfield.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005
