2018
HU3872 : Scatsta Airfield
taken 6 years ago, near to Scatsta Airport, Mainland, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Scatsta Airfield
Scatsta Airfield is a commercial airport on Shetland, located 20 miles north of Lerwick and 5 miles to the southwest of Sullom Voe Terminal. The airport was first developed in 1940 as RAF Scatsta, a Royal Air Force fighter plane base to support Coastal Command flying boat operations at RAF Sullom Voe, and was the most northerly base in the British Isles.
After World War II Scatsta Aerodrome was abandoned, but it was reinstated as a civilian airport in 1978 to support the Shetland oil industry, and the Sullom Voe oil terminal in particular.
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