Cairnsmore House
Note: This map is only a rough estimation of where this site was located.
If anybody can be kind enough to offer a more exact location, this will be most welcome.
CAIRNSMORE HOUSE: Very temporary landing ground
Location: A field alongside the entrance to Cairnsmore House, 4nm SE of Newton Stewart
Period of operation: 20th September 1926 only?
NOTES: It appears that in the evening of the 20th September 1926, a DH.60 Moth G-EBMO piloted by Hubert Stanford Broad, (Chief Pilot of the De Havilland Aircraft Co), landed here to deliver Mary Duchess of Bedford for her autumn annual visit. The longest flight she’d made so far. The Duchess, having discovered that flying brought temporary relief from a constant buzzing in her ears, (a condition we now know as tinnitus), now preferred to fly, (rather than take a train for example), whenever possible.
It appears that a bit later the Duchess then established a permanent Landing Ground (AA approved) nearby. See CREETOWN.
The history of this lady regarding her involvement with aviation is quite remarkable and well worth a study. Inded she later learnt to fly, and, to cut the long story short, subsequently disappeared off the east coast of England in her DH Moth never to be seen again in what are euphemistically described as somewhat “mysterious circumstances”.
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