RAF Findo Gask

RAF Findo Gask was a Second World War airfield in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, roughly seven miles west of Perth. It opened on 14 June 1941 and was laid out with Sommerfeld Track runways, serving under Flying Training Command and operating in close association with the nearby parent station at Errol.

The airfield’s most notable wartime occupants were the Polish-manned units. Detachments of No. 309 (Polish) Squadron, an army co-operation and fighter-reconnaissance unit, were based here over the winter of 1942–43, flying Westland Lysanders and, briefly, North American Mustang Mk I fighters. From July 1943 the site was used as a relief landing ground by No. 9 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit, whose trainees flew aircraft such as the Miles Master and North American Harvard. Persistent flooding and waterlogging dogged the airfield throughout, and these drainage problems forced training activity to be relocated during 1944.

In the closing stages of the war the airfield hosted Polish Army units, and afterwards it served as a holding camp for German prisoners of war. The RAF retained it as an equipment disposal sub-site before final derequisition in 1948. Little survives today: the land has largely returned to agriculture and housing, though the unusual three-storey control tower has endured and has been converted into a private dwelling.