Scatsta Airport

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The Scatsta Airport is an airfield on the mainland of the Shetland Islands. Operator of the aerodrome is Serco on behalf of IAC.

The airfield was built during the Second World War as a base for British fighter aircraft to fend off German attacks from Norway her better. For this purpose, two intersecting runways (13/ 31 and 07 /25) were built. After the war the airfield was abandoned. In 1968, the U.S. Coast Guard established a LORAN-C transmitting station at the northern end of the web 13 / 31st The interest in the airfield woke up again in the 70s with the development of the oil fields, such as the Brent oil field in 1975, in the northern North Sea. The pumped there oil is pumped via pipelines to shore and loaded in the nearby Sullom Voe Oil Terminal in tankers. In order to supply the one hand, the rigs by helicopter and the other hand to be able to transport personnel from the British mainland to the oil terminal and the oil rigs, 1977, the reopening of the airport was passed. About the old runway 07/ 25, the new asphalt runway 06 /24 was built. In 1978 the airfield back into operation. In the following years the airport has been modernized several times and other buildings and hangars built on the former rail 13/31.

Meanwhile, the Scatsta Airport is used primarily by helicopters (eg Eurocopter EC 225) and aircraft (such as BAe 146) used in the oil and gas industry, which handle there staff and goods for the supply of oil platforms and associated infrastructure.