RAF Dounreay (original) (raw)
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Airport in Dounreay
| RAF Dounreay | |
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| IATA: noneICAO: EGPY | |
| Summary | |
| Airport type | Military |
| Operator | RAF, Royal Navy |
| Location | Dounreay |
| In use | 1944–1954 |
| Elevation AMSL | 112 ft / 34 m |
| Coordinates | 58°35′0″N 3°43′40″W / 58.58333°N 3.72778°W / 58.58333; -3.72778 |
| Map | |
  EGPYLocation in Highland |
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Was an airfield in Dounreay, UK that opened in April 1944.[1]
In 1955 the airfield was taken over by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) for developing a fast breeder reactor. One runway was kept operational until the 1990s for transport to/from the site.
- ^ "ControlTowers.co.uk – Dounreay". Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- Delve, Ken (2010). The Military Airfields of Britain: Scotland and Northern Ireland. Ramsbury, UK: The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-84797-027-5.
- Smith, David J. (1983). Action Stations: 7. Military airfields of Scotland, the North East and Northern Ireland. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 0-85059-563-0.