Strathallan
STRATHALLAN: Private airfield (Sometimes called STRATHALLAN AIRPORT)
Note: All three pictures obtained from Google Earth ©
Operated by: 1980s: Strathallan Aircraft Museum
Note: See a gallery of pictures sent to this 'Guide' by Graeme Simpson in my article about British aviation museums etc.
1992: Sir William J D Roberts
Mid 1990s to - : Scottish Parachute Club
Note: The pictures from this Fly-in were kindly sent by Graeme Simpson in January 2018. The line-up in the third picture, from left to right, is the Cessna F150L G-BBTZ, Cessna F150F G-ATOG, the Fournier RF5 G-AZRK, and then a Grumman AA5 type, probably an Auster (?) and finally, (probably ?), a Cessna 172. Graeme tells me he cannot be certain, but thinks these pictures were taken in the late 1970s.
Location: 2.5nm NNW of Auchterader
Period of operation: 1974 to today?
Note: This map is reproduced with the kind permission of Pooleys Flight Equipment Ltd. Copyright Robert Pooley 2014.
Runway: 10/28 600x30 grass
NOTES: Home to the Strathallan Aircraft Collection from 1974 (?) to 1981 only? Listed as a private airfield in 1975. Other sources say the collection was closed, for public viewing, in 1988.
Terry Clark
This comment was written on: 2018-02-03 00:10:34Strathallan existed well before 1974. I landed there from Edinburgh in 1972, but it was difficult to find; we only found it because we saw an aircraft dropping parachutists at Gleneagles Moor and followed him to find the airfield! I'm sure it used to be about 1200m with a second runway running NE/SW. In my early days at Farnborough in 1974, it was planned to deliver Farnborough's Shackleton T4 there and to make sure there were no mishaps as there had been when the Comet was delivered the previous year (I think it skidded and lost its undercarriage) they practiced short landings at Farnborough; I can remember seeing black smoke from the brakes on more than one occasion. It was flown by the same pilot who had delivered the Beverley to Paull earlier that year.
Michael Harrold
This comment was written on: 2020-04-29 02:13:17The pictures taken at the Famous Grouse De Havilland Moth Club Hatfield to Strathallan Rally date from July 1979. This involved forty-one Tiger Moths, two Jackaroos, seven Hornet Moths and four Dragon Rapides and was a huge success, even if the BBC thought that it was a race for Tiger Moths only and that the crew from the Royal Navy Historic Flight were in the Tiger Moth painted in a Royal Navy scheme (which they were not). I flew the Fournier RF5 G-AZRK on another occasion. This lovely machine belonged to a syndiicate based in the Perth and Dundee areas and one of the memberrs was my dear frriend Ian Gibson, alongside whom I was a member of the Tayside Flying Club at Dundee!
Michael J. Harrold
This comment was written on: 2020-04-29 08:40:03I landed at Strathallan in Beagle B121 Pup 150 G-AXIF the morning after the Shackleton had been delivered and it had been raining. The grass was sodden and there was a rut down the middle of the runway flanked by two fairly deep depressions, all caused by the Shack's undercarriage. Keeping the Pup in order in such conditions, with its short wheelbase and narrow-ish track u/c, was quite interesting!
Michael T Holder
This comment was written on: 2020-05-18 12:32:05I was on 51 Sqn when the Comet 2R 655 was sold to Strathallan; I tried to get on the delivery flight but only a min crew was used so one navigator and not the normal two. The captain kept flying round the circuit - doing low overshoots - until they were down to min fuel. On the final approach they clipped a low grass wall/mound which had rocks in it, and this was enough to rip off one leg. They did not realise what had happened until the wing ran out of lift and dropped onto the grass and they came to a grinding halt. I know this because the pilot was my boss at the Nimtod R cell at 1GP and I got the full story on a quiet day. The ground crew enjoyed themselves on the busmens holiday up at Strathallan fixing on a new undercarriage and flaps.
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