RAF Milltown

Milltown, a short way from Elgin in Scotland started life as a decoy for nearby Lossiemouth. However the decoy site ceased to be used in October 1941 and construction began on a real airfield which opened in June 1943. Initially used by Bomber Command the airfield soon passed to Coastal Command although it was a base for 617 Squadron in 1944 for their missions to sink the Tirpitz which ultimately succeeded in November of that year.

Following the end of hostilities the airfield transferred to the Fleet Air Arm in 1946 as a training base and remained in use until it reverted to RAF control in 1972. Apart from deployment exercises no further aircraft were based at the field and flying ceased completely in 1977.

The field was then used by the RAF as a signals station until 2003 before being sold off 10 years later.

I went for a look a few days ago and most of the runways and one original hangar remain. There are few buildings and the site is used for sheep and cattle grazing as well as an HGV school and skid pan training. Although there was no sign of it plans are afoot for a solar panel farm.