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Hoprig Mains
| 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 Type(s): | Unpaved |
| Aircraft Role(s): | Fighter |
N.B. The map position shown is the approximate known location of the airfield.
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 01/10/2024):
- Macmerry & Gladsmuir Community Council
The following alternative information/mass media sources have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/10/2024):
- East Lothian Life http://www.eastlothianlife.co.uk/default.asp?page=issue&issue=105
Main unit(s) present:
- No 77 Sqn
Hoprig Mains, as viewed from the north-east edge of Macmerry, 25 June 2019.
View to the west across Hoprig Mains, 25 June 2019.
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