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Sollas Airfield Sollas Airport | |||||||||||
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 Highland Aviation Fournier RF-3 G-LAZL, and G-BNHG in the airfield at Traigh Ear/beach | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Disused | ||||||||||
| Operator | Northern & Scottish Airways | ||||||||||
| Location | Scottish Highlands, North Uist | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 57°39′51″N 007°20′07″W / 57.66417°N 7.33528°W | ||||||||||
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  Sollas Airfield Location in Scotland, Sollas | |||||||||||
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Sollas Airfield was an airfield that are 200 km away to the west of Inverness on the island of North Uist in the Hebrides.
The airfield is positioned to the North of Sollas township with the runway located to South of the sand dunes. The area where the runway was found positioned has been returned to be an agricultural land. all that could be found on the date of visit was three concrete hut bases on the North side of the A865.[1]
History
[edit]The airfield was opened in March 1936 by the Northern & Scottish Airways,[2] according to Iain Louis Hutchison's book Scottish Air Ambulance Service (Air Ambulance: Six Decades of the Scottish Air Ambulance Service) prior to 1936 said that they would land either on the sands of Traigh Ear, opposite Grenitote village or the on Vallay Strand.[3][4]
However, by 1936 Hutchison said that two grass runways, a hangar, and a fuel depot were built by the airways when it was opened in the beach, and the Machair.[3][4]
Closure
[edit]The service continues after the Scottish Airways became British European Airways, and then retired its De Havilland Rapides in the 1950s which the time the airfield was closed.[2][4]
Until now it was disused, and turns into a normal beach, but still is being used for light aircrafts, and special "fly in" annual events. The events is there as memoirs for John Macleod who sadly passed away when running the event.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "North Uist Airfield 20th Century". Retrieved 5 November 2025.
- ^ a b "Sollas I North Uist". Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Sollas Airfield". Retrieved 21 November 2016.
- ^ a b c Air Ambulance: Six Decades of the Scottish Air Ambulance Service. Glasgow: Kea Publishing. 1996. ISBN 978-0951895825.
- ^ "Fly in Events Sollas". Retrieved 22 August 2025.