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Hoprig Mains

Major
Also known as: Hoprig Mains Landing Ground / RFC Hoprig Mains / Tranent
County: East Lothian
Current Status: Farmland (precise location not known)
Date: October 1916 - June 1917
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RFC
Landing Surface Types: Unpaved
Aircraft Roles: Fighter

Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 and BE12 variants fighters of No 77 Squadron had Hoprig Mains available to them as a Home Defence landing ground during World War One. Although the precise location remains not wholly clear, it lay separately to the north-east of later much better known Macmerry, along with a long-standing farm bearing the same name.

 

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 30/11/2018):

  • Macmerry & Gladsmuir Community Council

The following alternative information/mass media sources have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 30/11/2018):

  • East Lothian Life http://www.eastlothianlife.co.uk/default.asp?page=issue&issue=105

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 77 Sqn
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Hoprig Mains, as viewed from the north-east edge of Macmerry, 25 June 2019.

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View to the west across Hoprig Mains, 25 June 2019.

Home Defence Flight Station(s):

New Haggerston / Turnhouse / Whiteburn

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