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Tiree Airport, on the west coast of the island of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, is the only paved-runway aerodrome on this remote outer-Hebridean island, sitting on the site of the former RAF Tiree. It offers a set of three intersecting hard runways, generous by island standards, serving scheduled Loganair services to Glasgow and Hebridean Air Services flights to Coll and Oban, making it a useful and characterful destination for the VFR pilot exploring the Hebrides.
Tiree Airport lies on the Isle of Tiree, the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland's west coast. Owned and operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), it began life as RAF Tiree and today provides the island's air link to the mainland. For the visiting simulator pilot it is a distinctive stop: a trio of long, lit hard runways on a low, flat, windswept island surrounded by sea, giving an unusually generous choice of runway alignment for such a small community airfield.
The airfield is located around 3 miles (5 km) north-northeast of Balemartine on the Isle of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides off Scotland's west coast. It sits within the wider Scottish airspace structure serving the Highlands and Islands, well away from other airfields, with the surrounding area dominated by open Atlantic coastline and low-lying machair terrain typical of Tiree.
Tiree has three physical runways, all hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 05/23 is the longest, at 4,827 ft (05) and 4,458 ft (23). Runway 11/29 measures 2,630 ft in each direction, and runway 17/35 measures 2,586 ft in each direction. There is no ILS.
The airfield is served by an Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS) on 122.705 MHz.
The airfield began as RAF Tiree, requisitioned in 1940 and becoming operational in April 1942, before being transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1947. During its wartime service it hosted a number of RAF and Fleet Air Arm units, including No. 224 Squadron RAF, No. 281 Squadron RAF, No. 304 (Polish) Bomber Squadron, No. 518 Squadron RAF, 819, 845 and 1840 Naval Air Squadrons, No. 2842 Squadron RAF Regiment, and the RAF Meteorological Conversion Unit between October 1943 and February 1944.
Tiree Airport is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited and continues to provide the island's principal air link. Loganair operates scheduled services to Glasgow, while Hebridean Air Services flies to Coll and Oban. Since 2017 passengers departing from Tiree have not been subject to security screening, instead declaring that they carry no prohibited items, with any necessary security checks completed on arrival at Glasgow for onward connections.
