Royal Air Force Aird Uig was a Royal Air Force radar station located on the western edge of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The main masts and operations room were located north of the village of Aird Uig on Gallan Head, with a separate domestic site nearer to the village, five-eighths mile (one kilometre) further south.

Royal Air Force Aird Uig was a Royal Air Force radar station. The station was originally constructed as part of the ROTOR programme and it was operated by the communications ground trades of the RAF between 1954 and 1974.

RAF Aird Uig was a radio and radar station established at Aird Uig, Gallan Head on Lewis. The site formed part of NATO's early-warning system which monitored the area for Soviet submarines and aircraft, and was one of three new Centimetric Early Warning (CEW) stations, the others being at RAF Faraid Head and RAF Saxa Vord.

RAF Aird Uig, also known as Royal Air Force Aird Uig, was a significant military airfield located on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Throughout its history, it played a crucial role in various military operations, particularly during World War II.

Aug 20, 2010 · Our main RAF Aird Uig page is here. In 1959 I was a 23-year-old Corporal Technician in the Royal Air Force. I had been stationed for some time at RAF Beachy Head near Eastbourne in Sussex – an early warning radar site literally on the top of Beachy Head.

Aird Uig is a small village of 10 crofts (counting 3a and 3b as two) situated at the end of the road to Gallan Head, on the western side of the Amhuinn Gil na h-Airde. The crofts fan out from the riverside and some were enlarged to take in rocky ground to the east of the river.

RAF Aird Uig On the windswept, 60-metre high, cliffs at Gallan Head, Aird Uig, a watcher’s hut was built for shelter, during the Second World War. Local men, in the Auxiliary Coastguard Service, kept a watch on the North Western Approaches for enemy ships.

19774: RAF Aird Uig On the windswept, 60-metre high, cliffs at Gallan Head, Aird Uig, a watcher’s hut was built for shelter, during the Second World War. Local men, in the Auxiliary Coastguard Service , kept a watch on the North Western Approaches for enemy ships.

125 years after the first settlers, the Ministry of Defence identified land on the Gallan Head, just to the north of Aird Uig, as a suitable site for a communications and surveillance centre. An RAF camp was built as if an extension to the old village, and …

Jul 30, 2003 · RAF Aird Uig was fitted with one Marconi Type 13 height finder, one Type 14 and a Decca Type 80 early warning radar with a US IFF aerial mounted on it. The Type 80 was the four motored variant that was only installed across the top …