Campbeltown Airport
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Cambeltown Airport is located three miles from the town of Campbeltown, at the tip of Kintyre. 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, and hosted squadrons of the Royal Air Force and other NATO airforces. 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 Royal Navy nuclear submarines based at Faslane Naval Base.
Military operations ceased in 1997.
Today the airport is serviced by a Loganair flight to Glasgow International Airport from Monday to Friday.