Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Bheinn na Faoghla) (IATA: BEB, ICAO: EGPL) is located on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, off the West Coast of Scotland. It is a small rural airport owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.
Location
57.481°N, 7.363°O · 6 m s. n. m. (19 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2 Official publication
Tower
ATIS (automatic information)
Frequencies from the official publication: UK AIP (NATS), AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
Early years
An airfield has existed on Benbecula since 1936 when Scottish Airways began operating to what was known as Balivanich Airfield, located on the north west corner of the island.
Second World War
Between 1941 and 1942, during the Second World War, the airfield became RAF Benbecula, when it came under the control of the Royal Air Force's No. 15 (GR) Group, Coastal Command. During this period it was home to aircraft carrying out patrols in the Atlantic, protecting shipping convoys from German U-Boats. Such missions were carried out by the Lockheed Hudson and latterly the Boeing Fortress and Vickers Wellington.
At its peak, RAF Benbecula had several thousand troops stationed at the station and at several other sites around the islands.
The following units were based at the airfield at some point:
No. 36 Squadron RAF
No. 179 Squadron RAF
No. 206 Squadron RAF
No. 220 Squadron RAF
No. 279 Squadron RAF
No. 280 Squadron RAF
No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron
No. 455 Squadron RAAF
814 Naval Air Squadron
819 Naval Air Squadron
838 Naval Air Squadron
842 Naval Air Squadron
No. 2841 Squadron RAF Regiment
Postwar
The airfield later became the control centre for the nearby Hebrides Rocket Range. After the Second World War, the airfield became Benbecula Airport.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Benbecula Airport (BEB). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BEB
MLA
“Benbecula Airport (BEB).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BEB. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Benbecula Airport (BEB).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BEB.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Benbecula Airport (BEB). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BEB (Accessed: 24 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Benbecula Airport (BEB)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BEB},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BEB}},
urldate = {2026-10-24},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}Wikipedia
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