Yesterday I was told a French Air Force CN-235 ‘141’ went into Ashaig, this is pretty unusual and I’m kind of intregued as to why it landed. There have been quite a few military movements over the years that I lived on Skye, but this was the biggest military visitor that actually landed that I’m aware of.
There have been the odd C-130 touch and goes, but none actually put down as far as I’m aware. There have also been a couple of Hawks visited in the past couple of months, I’m pretty sure that these weren’t connected to Joint Warrior unless someone was scoping out where to get some lunch during the exercise. Although that pleasure usually falls to the Plockton Hotel, where the Merlins are operating out of Plockton International.
It’s more likely that you’ll see the odd light civil stuff at Ashaig, well upto the size of a Beech 350i – than anything military.
I’ll have to have a little dig around on this and see if they local grape vine throws anything up, but that’s the way that spotting is – someone probably saw it if they were out walking their dog on the airfield.