Validation date: 17 03 2017
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58°49'42”N 003°08'44”W
runway: 16/34 - 760x18m/2490x60ft - asphalt
Flotta airfield is a small airfield 315 kilometer north of Edinburgh.
The airfield is owned by the Talisman Oil Company, who also built the airfield. The first landing on Flotta was made by a Loganair Islander aircraft, G-AWNR, on 28 May 1976. The first scheduled air service to Flotta was flown via Hoy on 1 March 1977 and the service was flown by another Loganair Islander aircraft, G-AXVR. Crew change operations for the Occidental Petroleum oil terminal were also performed by a British Airways HS748. Loganair's scheduled services to Flotta were discontinued only 4 years later in 1981, as a direct result of free ferry services being provided by the oil company. It did not close the airfield, though.