Longside
LONGSIDE: Military Airship Station (also known as PETERHEAD and LENABO)
Aerial view 2003
Note: This picture was obtained from Google Earth ©
Military users: RNAS/RAF Class G Airship Station (for non-rigid airships) 1916 to 1919
RAF Temporary Marine Operations Station November to December 1918
Location: In/near Longside on the A950 roughly 5nm W of Peterhead
Period of operation: 1916 to 1919
Site area: 950 acres 2496 x 2131 (A real whopper of a site for those days!)
NOTES: This site later became RAF PETERHEAD in WW2. See seperate listings for PETERHEAD and LONGSIDE GA.
Brian Jarman
This comment was written on: 2019-02-03 16:24:42re. Longside airfield, I was stationed at RAF Buchan a radar station two miles south of Peterhead, it is now a remote radar head, but back in the distant past, 1961 / 62 we had a range for firing our rifles and brews annually. The picture in google maps still shows vestiges of runways and a lot of modern usage. I was a national service ground radar fitter.
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