RAF Kirknewton

RAF Kirknewton lay in West Lothian a few miles south-west of Edinburgh and opened around 1940. During the war it was chiefly an army- and anti-aircraft-cooperation station — No. 289 and the Polish No. 309 Squadrons were among its users, flying types such as the Bristol Blenheim, Hawker Hurricane and North American Mustang — and it later held an air-ammunition park. Afterwards it was used for many years by the United States Air Force, including a spell as a signals-intelligence site, before reverting to the RAF. The Ministry of Defence still holds the airfield, which is now flown by an Air Cadet volunteer gliding squadron.