Kilkerran
KILKERRAN: Private airstrip
Note: All four of these pictures were obtained from Google Earth ©
Location: E of the B741, between Crosshill and Dailly, roughly 6nm E of Turnhouse town centre
Period of operation: 1970s to ?
Runway: 2004: 03/21 830 grass 2018: 02/22 830 grass
NOTES: In the mid 1970s it seems five aircraft were based here: The Klemm L.25-1A G-AAUP, Auster J/1N Alpha G-AIGU, DH82A Tiger Moth G-AREH, Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer 160 G-ARFD and the Cessna 180 G-BDVR of The Missionary Aviation Fellowship.
If anybody can kindly offer more information, this will be much appreciated. (See 'Comment' below).
In late 2019 I looked again at my entry - it needed to be largely re-written. And, in recent years, I have become much better at using Google Earth and the pictures above should prove the point.
Dode
This comment was written on: 2019-03-21 23:12:53Kilkerran is indeed still used. There are some small hangers off the south end of the runway.
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