Gleneagles
GLENEAGLES: Civil Landing Ground and later popular helipad
Picture by Austin J Brown:
Note: This picture was taken on the 15th October 1992 when Aussie Brown and I were flying the Cessna 172 G-WACL from Aberdeen to Glasgow.
Location: Gleneagles Hotel and Golf Course, Auchterader
Period of operation: 1930s only for fixed wing aircraft? Helipad operating since (?)
NOTES: This information regarding the Landing Ground came about when the Royal Aeronautical Society kindly sent me a guide to ‘UK Flying Clubs & Landing Grounds 1933-34’ published in Flying – The Light Aeroplane Weekly.
In more recent years, probably since the 1980s (?) in reasonably large numbers, visitors by air arrive by helicopter. Oddly enough it seems quite difficult to obtain detailed information but then again the amount of helicopters arriving will vary greatly depending on the nature of activities and indeed, during a major golf tournament I have seen pictures with perhaps twenty or more helicopters spaced out around the heli-pad area.
During a major golf tournament it is highly likely that at least one commercial helicopter company will offer a shuttle service into Gleneagles, for spectators mostly I imagine, and the reasonably nearby WW2 airfield at BALADO BRIDGE appears to be a favourite venue for a novel approach to 'park & ride'.
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
This concerns the Gleneagles Air Rally which took place on the 11th May 1929.
Note: This article was published in the Dundee Courier on the 3rd May 1929.
Note: This sixth item, pictures from a newspaper article, was published in the Dundee Evening Telegraph on the 13th May 1929.
Note: This seventh item is an article published in Flight magazine on the 16th May 1929. The ninth item, an area view, was added from my Google Earth © based database.
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