Inverness, Longman Airfield
Airfield (20th Century)
Site Name Inverness, Longman Airfield
Classification Airfield (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Longman Fields
Canmore ID 94691
Site Number NH64NE 171
NGR NH 6700 4650
NGR Description Centred NH 6700 4650
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 171.00 centred 6700 4650
NH64NE 171.01 NH 6675 4700 Oil Tanks
NH64NE 171.02 NH 6653 4651 Aircraft Hangar
NH64NE 171.03 c.NH 6726 4698 Pillbox (type 27)
NH64NE 171.04 c.NH 6699 4629 Pillbox (type 27)
NH64NE 171.05 c.NH 6687 4716 Pillbox (type 24)
For (present and successor) Inverness Airport (Dalcross), see NH75SE 31.
Opened on June 17 1933, it became an official RAF station in 1941. The site has now been used for an industrial estate and only a Bellman type hangar survives.
D J Smith 1983.
This airfield is situated in the area now covered by Longman Industrial Estate. A few airfield buildings survive amongst the industrial units that now cover the site.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 63
The hangar (NH 6653 4651) is noted as a T1 aircraft shed on the official Record Site Plan of 1954. (Crown Copyright plan: WA Drg no.WA 15/61/44, scale 1:2500, works directorate 3371/54). The aircraft hangar and airfield are visible on RAF post-war vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 169, 5001-2, flown 26 August 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001
