List of seaplane bases in the United Kingdom
- List of seaplane bases in the United Kingdom
Seaplane bases of the UK is a list of the active and historic seaplane bases, many of which were either used for, or planned to be used for, the defence of the UK.
A seaplane base may be anything from a stretch of water where seaplanes were based to a full installation, either floating (powered or unpowered) or shore based, where seaplanes were serviced. In the UK these are presumed to be coastal.
Active Seaplane Bases
*Glasgow Seaplane Terminal, Glasgow
*Obay Bay, Oban
*Loch Lomond
*Tobermory, Isle of Mull [starting 2008]
List of bases
(anticlockwise from Lands End)
*Mount Batten, Plymouth, Devon
*RNAS Portland [ [http://www.theheritagecoast.co.uk/historyfile/portland_and_weymouth/portlands_deep_sea_harbour/hms_osprey.htm The Heritage Coast - HMS Osprey] ] , Portland, Dorset
*RNAS Calshot/RAF Calshot [ [http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART32196.html Listed Historic First & Second World War Airfields] ] , Hampshire
*Newhaven, Tide Mills, east of Newhaven Harbour, Sussex
*Westgate-on-Sea, Kent
*RNAS Felixstowe, Suffolk
*RNAS Hickling Broad, Norfolk
*Brough Aerodrome, East Riding of Yorkshire
*RNAS Donibristle, Fife
*Arbroath (RNAS Condor II), Arbroath, Angus
*Woodhaven [ [http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/GoogleMap/Default.aspx?url=http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/GoogleMap/Pages/Map.aspx?ItemID=293 GoogleMap Woodhaven, Fife] ] , Woodhaven, Fife
*Greenock, Greenock, Inverclyde
References
ee also
*List of air stations of the Royal Navy
*RAF Coastal Command
*Royal Air Force
*Royal Flying Corps
*Royal Naval Air Service
*Seaplane tender
External links
* [http://www.theheritagecoast.co.uk/historyfile/portland_and_weymouth/portlands_deep_sea_harbour/hms_osprey.htm HMS Osprey]
* [http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Airstations/FAAAirStationsHomepage.htm Index Of Naval Air Stations]
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