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    Abbotsinch is an area in the town of Paisley, Scotland. It is today almost entirely occupied by Glasgow Airport. Traditionally in the parish of Renfrew...
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    known as Glasgow International Airport (IATA: GLA, ICAO: EGPF) formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport in Scotland. It is located in Paisley...
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    Renfrew and Abbotsinch. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press Ltd., 2009. McCloskey, Keith. Glasgow's Airports: Renfrew and Abbotsinch. Stroud,...
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    online for 3 official weather stations in the Glasgow area: Paisley, Abbotsinch and Bishopton. All are located to the west of the city, in neighbouring...
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    Ripton England Huntingdonshire 1938 1942 Became part of RAF Alconbury. RAF Abbotsinch Scotland Renfrewshire 1933 1943 Passed to Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm in...
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    HMS Robin, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkney, RNAS Grimsetter HMS Sanderling RNAS Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire, Scotland HMS Siskin, Gosport Hampshire, RNAS Gosport. Now...
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  • scenes at both the OVO Hydro, in Glasgow itself, and Glasgow Airport, in Abbotsinch, Paisley, in October 2019. Filming also took place at Warner Bros. Studios...
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    Scotland's second busiest airport, Glasgow International Airport, at Abbotsinch between Paisley and Renfrew. The presence of the airport and the proximity...
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    at Greenock on the River Clyde on 31 May 1941; the Hurricane landed at Abbotsinch. Six CAM ships joined convoys in June 1941. When a CAM ship arrived at...
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    Unit. The unit moved from RAF Gosport in March 1940, relocating to RAF Abbotsinch located in Paisley, Renfrewshire, west of the city of Glasgow. Its primary...
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  • Gliding School December 1943 RAF Paisley Cadet TX.1/TX.2 Sedbergh TX.1 RAF Abbotsinch RAF Grangemouth 1952 5 Gliding School October 1944 RAF Fordoun Cadet TX...
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    London–Northolt (until 1954) Secondary hubs Berlin–Tempelhof (1951–1974) Glasgow–Abbotsinch (1966–1974) Glasgow–Renfrew (before 1966) Guernsey Jersey Liverpool London–Croydon...
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    which the completed airframes were transported by road to the Clyde at Abbotsinch (now Glasgow Airport) for flight testing. During May 1935, the Shark entered...
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  • of Man. The aircraft was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Abbotsinch Airport, Glasgow. Despite the loss of a wing in the accident, the aircraft...
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    Peter's Seminary, Cardross, Scotland (Gillespie, Kidd & Coia 1966) Glasgow-Abbotsinch Airport, Paisley, Scotland (Basil Spence, 1966) Andrew Melville Hall,...
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  • shortly embarked on HMS Chaser for three weeks before transfer to RNAS Abbotsinch (HMS Sanderling) and thence to RNAS Eglington. The squadron transferred...
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    Airports, is Scotland's largest airport, located to the north of Paisley at Abbotsinch. It is adjacent to the M8 motorway and served by buses from Paisley Gilmour...
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  • which closed in that year, following the opening of the new Glasgow (Abbotsinch) Airport slightly further west. Hillington Estate was actually the airport...
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  • Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2012. "Abbotsinch". Met Office. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved...
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  • Renfrew Airport Glasgow 2 May 1966 Replaced with the new Glasgow Airport in Abbotsinch. Rhodes Maritsa Airport Rhodes 1977 Commissioned as military airbase....
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    Squadron, which operated the Supermarine Spitfire fighter, was based at Abbotsinch but in October shifted to Grangemouth, from where it conducted patrols...
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    following day. On arrival of the damaged Thane, seven were flown off to RDU Abbotsinch and two, thought to be damaged, were craned off. Cocker (2008), p.82....
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  • February 1957 into No. 64 Group. During April 1953 the group controlled: RAF Abbotsinch No. 1967 Air Observation Post Flight RAF – Auster RAF Dyce Aberdeen University...
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    Attacker F.1 Serial number WA473 was placed on display on the gate at RNAS Abbotsinch. Completed at VAs South Marston factory in July 1951, it had served with...
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    RAF Heathfield, Ayr, followed by a further move to HMS Sanderling, RNAS Abbotsinch in January 1944. Training used escort carriers on the Firth of Clyde and...
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    Royal Auxiliary Air Force, No 602 was reformed on 10 May 1946 at RAF Abbotsinch as a day fighter squadron. It was initially equipped with Spitfire F.14s...
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    Hendon No. 602 Squadron RAF from 1929 to 1934 at RAF Renfrew then RAF Abbotsinch No. 603 Squadron RAF from 1930 to 1934 at RAF Turnhouse No. 604 Squadron...
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    in 1900. The newer church was then replaced by part of the airfield at Abbotsinch. The latest church (Inchinnan Parish) is in the centre of the village...
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    'Hallows Church' in 1900, then demolished in 1965 for the extensions of Abbotsinch airfield into Glasgow Airport. A stone, thought to be the base of an early...
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    Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Airport Frankfurt, Frankfurt Airport Glasgow, Abbotsinch Airport London, Gatwick Airport Manchester, Manchester Airport Shannon...
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