RAF Dounreay

RAF Dounreay
IATA: none ICAO: 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
Map
EGPY Location in Highland

Was an airfield in Dounreay, UK that opened in April 1944.

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.

See also

• Dounreay

References

• 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.