Turnberry Golf Club
Note: This map only gives the position of the main golf club complex, not the helipads.
TURNBERRY GOLF CLUB: Private helipads
Operated by: Trump Turnberry Golf Club
Location: On the W and E of the A719, N of the A77, roughly 5nm NNE of Girvan
Note: The two pictures of G-TRMP were copied from the Trump Turnberry web-site. The picture of the Greenpeace paramotor from the ITV web-site.
The Sikorsky S-76B G-TRMP (ex N76TE) was registered to DT Connect Europe at Turnberry on the 16th June 2015 and is available for hire to customers using both this location and the Trump International Golf Links at Balmedie near Aberdeen.
When the U.S. President visited his Turnberry golf club on the 14th July 2018, a Greenpeace paramotor trailing the banner "TRUMP: WELL BELOW PAR" flew through the 'No Fly' zone. The police were warned in advance and it wasn't shot down - which it could have been. The pilot was arrested soon afterwards and faces very serious criminal charges. Will he be treated leniantly? The main reason for including his exploit here is that it made the news on a global scale. And, as far as I know, no other paramotor pilot has achieved this.
The Turnberry golf course has been established largely over the WW2 TURNBERRY airfield and the runways, (in 2018 at least), were still clearly visible.
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