Old Photographs Sumburgh Airport Scotland

Old photograph of Sumburgh Airport twelve miles South of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Sumburgh Links was surveyed and the grass strips laid out by Captain E. E. Fresson in 1936: the Airport was opened on the 3rd of June of that year with the inaugural flight from Aberdeen by the De Havilland Dragon Rapide G-ACPN piloted by Fresson himself.

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