RAF Kilchiaran

55°45′58″N 6°27′19″W / 55.766009°N 6.455266°W / 55.766009; -6.455266TypeRadar stationSite informationOwnerMinistry of DefenceControlled byRoyal Air ForceSite historyBuiltunknownIn useunknownBattles/warsEuropean theatre of World War II, Cold War

RAF Kilchiaran was a Royal Air Force radar station situated on the Isle of Islay in Scotland.^[1] It was originally active from 1940-1945. In 1954, the base was refurbished to accommodate the RAF Kilchiaran Chain Home Extra Low (CHEL) radar station, which was obsolete by 1958. Since 1958, RAF has not used any of the facilities and BT Group has acquired a few buildings that are now microwave transmission stations.

See also

• Islay Airport

References

UK radar
stations

active	Benbecula Brizlee Wood Buchan Neatishead Portreath Saxa Vord Staxton Wold
former	Aird Uig Ash Bawdsey Beachy Head Bempton Bent Rigg Bishops Court Chenies Craster Cresswell Danby Beacon Donna Nook1 Dry Tree Goldsborough Holmpton Hope Cove Kilchiaran Patrington Portland Ringstead Sopley Stenigot Swingate Down Trimingham Ventnor West Beckham

worldwide
radar stations

active	Byron Heights (Falkland Islands) Mount Alice (Falkland Islands) Mount Kent (Falkland Islands) Mount Olympus (Cyprus)
former	Madalena (Malta)

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