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East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Hanger 98/iv
Aircraft Hangar (20th Century)
Site Name East Fortune Airfield, Technical Area, Hanger 98/iv
Classification Aircraft Hangar (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Museum Of Flight
Canmore ID 234213
Site Number NT57NE 72.10
NGR NT 55349 78390
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/234213
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NE 72.10 55349 78390
Information transferred from cancelled site NT57NE 201
Large aircraft hangar built by the Air Ministry post 1943. It is a Thompson type aircraft hangar known as Hangar IV. It is much larger than the three Callendar-Hamilton type and is in use for storage by the Museum of Flight, and is in poor condition. A Nissen Hut, is situated adjecent to this building.
The hangar is not visible on the 1943 series of RAF vertical air photographs (NLA 68, 3041-3049,4041-4049, flown 26 August 1943), but can be seen on the immediate postwar series (106G/SCOT/UK14, 5185-5190; 5361-5366, flown 15 April 1946), indicating that it was built later in the war.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2005
External Reference (29 November 1990)
Air Ministry circa 1940-45. Type two Thompson aircraft hangar. Framed
grid elevations of corrugated shet metal painted black and supported by
raking struts. Framed, wheeled 2-leaf doors to gable ends with guide rails and eaves girder. Supported inside by light steel framework of stanchions and roof trusses of scissor brace construction. Glazed with single rows of antiactinic glass.
Hangar IV is much larger than the 3 neighbouring Callendar-Hamilton
hangars. It is currently in use for storage by the Museum of Flight, but is in a
dangerous condition (1989). Listed for its contribution to the former airfield
complex. Hangar IV is accompanied by a Nissen Hut, no 189/39, detailed as
those by hangars 1, II and III.
Information from Historic Scotland, 29th November 1990
