An airfield was established on the site in 1922 to support the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, which had one of its main bases nearby at Invergordon.

By the start of the Second World War the Home Fleet had moved to Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands to be out of range of German Bombers.

RAF Evanton was the farthest north and attracted a mile long queue of cars and 9,000 visitors.

The Cromarty Firth was used as a seaplane base during the War and the RAF maintained a presence in Alness until at least the 1980s.

The site is split by the A9 trunk road and an oil pipeline company TechnipFMC has built a large Spoolbase and pier incorporating part of the runways as pipe storage racks.