Transport and Telecomms Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Coastal River and canal Road Road bridges Railway Air and telecoms Turnhouse Airport, Edinburgh Turnhouse first opened as a military aerodrome in May 1916. After 1945, its military status became a civil one, as Edinburgh's airport. The RAF ceased to use the airport in 1970, and an extended, re-alligned runway was opened in the mid-1970s. A new terminal followed in the 1980s. Scotland has 52 civil airports or airfields and 14 helipads. Only six airfields still have a military presence. The larger airports – Turnhouse, Abbot's Inch, Aberdeen – are voracious land-users. Terminals, runways, storage and parking all require space. Elsewhere in Scotland, and especially in the isles, facilities are more modest – such as the tiny airstrip on Colonsay, Argyll, normally grazed by cattle and sheep. Resource pack   1     2     3     4     5