RAF Milltown
About
RAF Milltown, near Elgin in Moray, began life as a decoy site for nearby Lossiemouth before opening as an airfield in its own right in 1943 as a Lossiemouth satellite. A bomber operational training unit flew Vickers Wellingtons from it, No. 224 Squadron flew Consolidated Liberators on anti-U-boat patrols, and Avro Lancasters used the field during the 1944 attacks on the battleship Tirpitz. The Royal Navy took it over after the war, and it later served as a signals station until 2006. The runways survive amid farmland, with a solar farm proposed for the site.
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