Aberdeen Airport
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Aberdeen International Airport is an international airport, located in the Dyce suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, approximately 5 nautical miles northwest of Aberdeen city centre. As of 2023, 1.9 million people used the airport.
Aberdeen Airport
Target dosier of the Airport, German Luftwaffe, 1940
The airport is the world's busiest heliport. Here four helicopters are lined up in the morning waiting to begin the day's operations.
Various aircraft at Aberdeen International Airport in July 2014
Dyce
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Dyce is a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, situated on the River Don about 6 mi (10 km) northwest of the city centre. It is best known as the location of Aberdeen Airport.
Dyce
Old Dyce church interior
BPPD (BP Petroleum Development) offices seen from the air in November 1981
BP (British Petroleum) offices in 1985; all of BP's UK fields are operated from here, and the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Harold Wilson (Prime Minister) and Prince Andrew came to the BP offices on 3 November 1975 to switch on the supply of oil from the BP Forties Oil Field - the oil came inland at Cruden Bay, and ended up 130 miles away at Grangemouth Refinery. Development of the field had cost around £750m. Britain would become self-sufficient in oil by 1980. The next main field to come ashore was from the