Renfrew Airport was the domestic airport serving the city of Glasgow until it was decommissioned in 1966. It was located in the Newmains area of Renfrew, approximately 2 kilometres east of the current airport which would later replace it. It consisted of a main terminal building and ancillary buildings, and a main runway which ran west south ...

3 天之前 · The new airport terminal opened in 1954 was dominated by an extremely distinctive arch at the entrance, not entirely dissimilar to today’s structure at Wembley Stadium in London. Sadly this supposedly listed feature was abruptly demolished along with the rest of the now disused site in the 1970s and replaced by a Tesco store.

Your RAF Station –Renfrew – is near Glasgow and the location is shown on this map. Renfrew may have started its life as early as 1912 as Moorpark Aerodrome. It was certainly in use by W&J Weir in 1915 who built a number of different aircraft types such as …

Renfrew Airport was the domestic airport serving the city of Glasgow until it was decommissioned in 1966. Quick Facts Summary, Airport type ... It was located in the Newmains area of Renfrew, approximately 2 kilometres east of the current airport which would later replace it.

The squadron was formed at RAF Renfrew on 15 September 1925 as a light bomber squadron in the Auxiliary Air Force, and initially equipped with Airco DH.9As. These were replaced by Fairey Fawns in 1927, Westland Wapitis in 1929, Hawker Harts in …

Renfrew was an aircraft acceptance park for the Weir aircraft scheme on clydeside and the Ministry of Munitions. Scottish Aviation were at Renfrew during the war, the one from 1914 is a completely different company. From 1952 the company serviced Sabres and CF-100s of the RCAF they moved to Prestwick in 1960 because Renfrew was too small.

Renfrew (Moorpark) aerodrome was in two parts. The larger was an Aircraft Acceptance Park (a military base to which aeroplanes were delivered by their manufacturers for testing, and for the fitting of instruments and guns); the smaller, to the west, was an Aircraft Repair Depot.

This site contains photographs taken, mainly in the 1960s, of examples of aircraft that visited Scottish airports - primarily Turnhouse (Edinburgh), but also Renfrew (Glasgow), Prestwick, Scone (Perth), Leuchars, Abbotsinch and Lossiemouth - plus some taken elsewhere.

World war II saw the arrival of the RAF, with the Air Ministry taking over the club headquarters, and expanding the buildings to meet it the RAF's requirements. Following the end of World War II, the club returned to the site, and became responsible for running the civil operation of …

2018年5月25日 · Renfrew Airport was the domestic airport serving the city of Glasgow until it was decommissioned in 1966. It was located in the Newmains area of Renfrew, approximately 2 kilometres east of Abbotsinch Airfield which would eventually replace it.