RAF Turnhouse

55.9500, -3.3725 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Turnhouse, on the western edge of Edinburgh, was a flying field from 1915 and a Fighter Command sector station guarding the Firth of Forth and the Scottish capital. No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron flew Supermarine Spitfires from it and shared in the first German bomber brought down over the British mainland, in October 1939. The RAF left in 1996, and the field is now Edinburgh Airport, the busiest in Scotland.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Turnhouse — Wikipedia and Turnhouse (Edinburgh) — 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

Abandoned RAF Turnhouse Viewed from Turnhouse Farm across the Edinburgh-Fife railway line.
ⓘ licence & creditCalum McRoberts / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abandoned_RAF_Turnhouse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_790483.jpgView source & full licence →
WAAF flight mechanics pull the chocks away from a Miles Martinet TT Mark I target tug of No. 289 Squadron RAF, on a hard standing at RAF Turnhouse (today Edinburgh Airport), Midlothian (UK).
ⓘ licence & creditF/O A. Goodchild, Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WAAF_members_with_289_Sqn_Martinet_at_RAF_Turnhouse_c1943.jpgView source & full licence →
RAF Turnhouse. Recently closed RAF base by Edinburgh Airport. To be redeveloped as industrial units. Taken through the fence right up against the grid line.
ⓘ licence & creditRichard Webb / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Turnhouse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_13253.jpgView source & full licence →
IWM caption : WAAF flight mechanics pull the chocks away from a Miles Martinet TT Mark I target tug of No. 289 Squadron RAF, on a hard standing at Turnhouse, Midlothian.
ⓘ licence & creditGoodchild A (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:289_Squadron_RAF_Martinet_WWII_IWM_CH_11880.jpgView source & full licence →

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