Stornoway Airport

Stornoway Airport (IATA: SYY, ICAO: EGPO) (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Steòrnabhaigh) is an airfield located 2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east of the town of Stornoway[2] on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland.

During the Cold War, from 1960 to 1983, the airfield was the home of 112 Signals Unit Stornoway (RAF).

NATO aircraft used the airport for missions over the North Atlantic and for stopovers en route to Greenland and the United States.

[citation needed] Nowadays the airfield is mainly used for domestic passenger services.

[4] Stornoway Airport is owned by HIAL, a company controlled by the Scottish Government.