Dounreay
DOUNREAY: Military aerodrome, Royal Naval Air Station, (HMS TERN II 1948 Books of HMS FULMAR)
Note:This picture was obtained from Google Earth ©
Later strictly private airfield (Also known as THURSO)
Military user in WW2: RN Fleet Air Arm
Operated by: 1970s to early 1990s: UK Atomic Energy Authority
Location: N of A836, 1.5nm NE of Reay, immediately W of Buldoo village, 8nm W of Thurso
Period of operation: Military: 1946 to 1954 (under construction in 1945)
Civil: 1970s to early 1998 only?
Runways: 1944: 04/22 1829x46 hard 17/35 1006x46 hard
11/29 1006x46 hard
1990: 04/22 1006x31 hard
(NE end of WW2 runway, a helipad was sited about one third along the runway from the 04 end)
NOTES: Depending on your political point of view this site became either famous or infamous as the site for the Dounreay Nuclear Power Station which closed in 1998. Presumably the airfield also closed in 1998? It certainly wasn’t listed in a Flight Guide dated 2000
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