Monikie
Note: This is only my estimation of where this airstrip might have been. Based on the premise that, on modern maps, trading estates and housing estates are very often on earlier military sites - as the essential services of water, electricity and sewage are already 'plumbed' in.
MONIKIE: Military airstrip
Location: NW of the B961 and about 8nm NE of Dundee city centre
NOTES: This airstrip was apparently used mainly to serve AMES DOUGLAS WOOD, a ‘secret’ radio station in WW2. Despite lots of 'Googling' I cannot find what AMES stands for. Any ideas?
In the book Montrose Airfield from 1913 Mr Len Dobson, employed in Ground and Air Signals, relates that more or less at the start of WW2 he was posted from MONTROSE to AMES DOUGLAS WOOD and says, “We went to MONIKIE in a small RAF transport plane and I was quite amazed when I saw the station in the distance”.
It has long been my suspicion, since now and again proved, like this one, that many military communications/radar stations had airstrips nearby which don’t seem to appear in any official records.
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