Building record MAB17666 - OPERATIONS BLOCK, BOYNDIE AIRFIELD

Operations block for Boyndie Airfield (MAB17645), now disused, built in 1942 - Site No. 2.

The airfield remained in use until mid 1946, afterwards becoming a target for simulated bombing attacks. It is a Wimpey Construction, low, horizontal, single-storey, Second World War operations block with a stepped flat roof and a rare survival of interior detail. The block is constructed from brick and some dry-dash, with 6 inch (15 cm) reinforced concrete roofs.

The blank south elevation of briefing rooms has a taller blank elevation of an operations room set back at the centre. The east entrance elevation has a doorway to the centre of a low blast wall leading to the briefing room at the left and slightly taller HVAC rooms projecting at the right with altered openings. The north elevation has altered openings to the HVAC room at the left, a dominant vertically-emphasised stack with a ventilator behind at the centre and an operations room to the right.

Inside the operations room has the remains of hand painted wartime data including detail of fallen aircraft and crews, and raised viewing cubicles also with hand painted data on the walls. The hand painted wall charts were started by Canadian War Artist Don Anderson, they originally detailed all vessels sunk by the Banff RAF Strike Wing.

Record last edited

May 13 2026 9:48PM