What is recorded here

Castletown Airfield was a Second World War military satellite to Wick that guarded Scapa Flow and Northern Scotland from May 1940 until April 1944. Its concrete pads, huts and dispersal bays still mark the Caithness landscape, while the hangars and naval gun have vanished. The site may have turned desperate fuel shortages into living danger, because a dispersal bay existed only to keep planes apart when fire or panic came.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castletown Airfield as Dispersal Bay (20th Century)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Castletown Airfield was likely constructed during World War II as a dispersal bay to support military aviation operations. It is remembered as part of Scotland's wartime infrastructure, reflecting the strategic importance of the region during the conflict.

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