RAF Stornoway

58.2160, -6.3285 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Stornoway opened on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 1941 as a Coastal Command station, its long runways laid out for the anti-submarine patrols that guarded the North Atlantic convoy routes. Squadrons flew Avro Ansons, Lockheed Hudsons and Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys from it, hunting U-boats and escorting shipping. The airfield was used again by the RAF in the Cold War and now serves the islands as Stornoway Airport.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Stornoway — Wikipedia and Stornoway — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

IWM caption : Aircrew and Handley Page Halifax Mk III bombers of No. 502 Squadron operating with RAF Coastal Command at Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides. Comment : The Merlin inline engines appear to identify the aircraft as Halifax Gr Mk II.
ⓘ licence & creditDaventry B J (Flt Lt), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:502_Squadron_RAF_Halifax_and_aircrew_Stornoway_1945_IWM_CH_14814.jpgView source & full licence →

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