Campbeltown Airport
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Campbeltown Airport
Campbeltown Airport is located 3
nautical miles
(5.6 km) west of
Campbeltown
, near the tip of the
Kintyre
peninsula on the west coast of
Scotland
. It is owned by the
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
, a company under the control of the
Scottish Executive
.The
airport
was formerly known as
RAF Machrihanish
, (after the village of
Machrihanish
) and hosted squadrons of the
Royal Air Force
and other
NATO
airforces as well as the
United States Marine Corps
. The airport is at a strategic point over the Irish sea, and was used to guard the entrance to the
Firth of Clyde
where US nuclear submarines were based at
Holy Loch
and where
Royal Navy
Trident missile
submarines are still based at
Faslane Naval Base
.
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Campbeltown Airport
Airport Name: Campbeltown Airport
Airport Location: n.a
IATA Code: CAL
ICAO Code: EGEC
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