Lossiemouth Airport

Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or RAF Lossiemouth is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of in , north-east .
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  • Email: los-a3ops@mod.gov.uk
  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Royal Air Force station and military airbase in Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “EGQS”, “LMO”, and “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • Address: Lossiemouth, IV31 6SD

Places of Interest

Highlights include Covesea Skerries Lighthouse and Moray Golf Club.

Lighthouse
Photo: Pemm, Public domain.
, originally belonging to the Northern Lighthouse Board, is built on top of a small headland on the south coast of the at Covesea, near , , .

Golf course
is situated in , , . The club has two eighteen-hole courses appropriately called the Old Course and the New Course.

Grassland
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, near , , , was a and was in use from c. 1140 to 1705. During its occupation it underwent many alterations.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lossiemouth and Duffus.

Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village on the coast of in , with a population in 2016 of 7870. It developed as a fishing port in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the harbour is small and that industry has gone.

Village
Photo: Lyall Duffus, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and parish in , Scotland. It is best known for the nearby , St. Peters' Kirk, and Spynie Palace.

Village
Photo: Craig Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a seaside village in , Scotland, it is situated on the coast of the , founded in 1805 to house and re-employ people displaced during the Highland clearances.

Lossiemouth Airport

Latitude
57.7076° or 57° 42′ 27″ north
Longitude
-3.3312° or 3° 19′ 52″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Operator
Royal Air Force
IATA airport code
LMO
ICAO airport code
EGQS
Open location code
9C9RPM59+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1119038059
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
6296641
Wiki­data ID
Q1164139
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tajik—“Lossiemouth Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “EGQS”
  • Arabic: “LMO”
  • Cebuano: “EGQS”
  • Cebuano: “LMO”
  • Cebuano: “Lossiemouth”
  • Cebuano: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • Chinese: “EGQS”
  • Chinese: “LMO”
  • Chinese: “洛西茅夫皇家空軍基地”
  • Dutch: “EGQS”
  • Dutch: “LMO”
  • Dutch: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • Finnish: “EGQS”
  • Finnish: “LMO”
  • Finnish: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • French: “EGQS”
  • French: “LMO”
  • French: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • German: “EGQS”
  • German: “LMO”
  • German: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • German: “Royal Air Force Station Lossiemouth”
  • Hebrew: “EGQS”
  • Hebrew: “LMO”
  • Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר המלכותי לוסימות‘”
  • Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר המלכותי לוסימות’”
  • Indonesian: “EGQS”
  • Indonesian: “LMO”
  • Indonesian: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • Japanese: “EGQS”
  • Japanese: “LMO”
  • Japanese: “ロジーマス基地”
  • Japanese: “ロジーマス空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “ロッシーマス空軍基地”
  • Malay: “EGQS”
  • Malay: “LMO”
  • Malay: “Pangkalan Udara Lossiemouth”
  • Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Lossiemouth”
  • Persian: “EGQS”
  • Persian: “LMO”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی لاسیماوث”
  • Swedish: “EGQS”
  • Swedish: “LMO”
  • Swedish: “RAF Lossiemouth”
  • Tajik: “EGQS”
  • Tajik: “LMO”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате лосимовс”

Localities in the Area

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