RNAS Longside

RNAS Longside RNAS Lenabo RAF Longside
Longside, Aberdeenshire
RNAS Longside RNAS Lenabo RAF Longside
Coordinates	57°28′26″N 1°57′00″W / 57.474°N 1.950°W / 57.474; -1.950
Type	Military – Airship station
Site information
Owner	Air Department 1915–1918 Air Ministry 1918–1920
Controlled by	Royal Naval Air Service  Royal Air Force
Open to the public	Yes, as a woodland
Site history
Built	1915 (1915)
In use	1916–1920 (1920).[1]
Battles/wars	First World War

RNAS Longside is a former Royal Naval Air Service airship station located 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Longside, Aberdeenshire and 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of Hatton, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was constructed in 1915 and was operational from 1916 until 1920 when the extensive buildings were demolished. It is sometimes referred to as RNAS Lenabo particularly by locals who termed the airships 'Lenobo Soo' a reference to the name of the area combined with the local dialect for a pig. It was the most northerly air ship station in mainland Britain. The air ships also used a small mooring site near Montrose in bad weather. The remit was to patrol the shipping lanes in the North Sea and the north east coast.

Since the airship station was decommissioned, it has been used as a forestry plantation and there is little indication of its former use.