RAF Turnhouse
Scotland
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.
Photographs
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Calum 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 →ⓘ licence & credit
F/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 →ⓘ licence & credit
Richard 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 →ⓘ licence & credit
Goodchild 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 →Home to
People connected to this base
2 persons cross-referenced to this airfield — through a posting here, a squadron based here, or aircrew who flew from it.
| Name | Rank | Connection | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones, Douglas | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Williams, Norman Francis Clarke | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |