Aircraft Wreckage Sites in the Scottish Mountains

Crash sites I have visited (click on the links to see my photographs, GPS data and written descriptions for each site).

Summits: M = Munro, C = Corbett

Last update: November 2011

North-West Highlands & Islands

Aircraft type Location Crash date
RAF Vickers Wellington Mullach Fraoch-choire (M), Glen Affric 13/02/42
RAF Avro Lancaster Beinn Eighe (M), Torridon 14/03/51
USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator Fairy Lochs, Gairloch 13/06/45
USAF McDonnell F-101 Voodoo Creach Bheinn (C), Morvern 07/05/64
RAF Avro Anson Conival/Ben More Assynt (M), Inchnadamph 13/04/41
USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Beinn Edra, Skye 03/03/45
RAF Consolidated Catalina Vatersay, Western Isles 12/05/44

Cairngorm Mountains/Mounth

Aircraft type Location Crash date
RAF English Electric Canberra Carn an t-Sagairt Mor (M) 22/11/56
RN Fairey Swordfish Tolmount (M), Glen Callater Unknown
RAF Vickers Wellington Carn Aosda (M), Glen Clunie 19/01/42
RAF Vickers Wellington Ben Tirran (C), Glen Clova 09/10/42
RAF Bristol Beaufort Hill of Wirren, Angus 08/03/42
RAF Airspeed Oxford Beinn a'Bhuird (M) 10/01/45
RAF Vickers Wellington Beinn a'Bhuird (M) 23/10/40
RAF Avro Anson Ben Macdui (M) 21/08/42
RAF Airspeed Oxford & RAF Bristol Blenheim Braeriach, Lairig Ghru (M) 12/10/43 & 26/03/45
RAF Vickers Wellington Bynack More (M) 15/08/44
RAF Avro Anson Little Garvoun, Glen Avon 07/08/41
RN Fairey Firefly Lochnagar (M) 16/05/49

Western Grampian Mountains

Aircraft type Location Crash date
RAF Lockheed Hudson Ben Lui (M) 15/04/41
BEA Vickers Viscount (civilian) Ben More (M), Crianlarich 19/01/73
RN Grumman F4F Martlet/Wildcat Beinn Bheula (C), Argyll 13/12/40
USAF Boeing B-29 Superfortress Beinn Tharsuinn/Stob na Boine Druim-fhinn, Succoth Glen, Argyll 17/01/49
RAF Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Beinn Stacach (C), Balquhidder 24/11/40
RAF Vickers Wellington Geal-chàrn, near Ben Alder (M) 10/12/42

Southern Uplands & Central Lowlands

Aircraft type Location Crash date
Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-88 Hare Hill, Pentland Hills 25/03/43
RAF Gloster Javelin Moorfoot Hills 21/11/60
RAF Boulton Paul Defiant Lammermuir Hills 29/08/41
RAuxAF de Havilland Vampire Lammermuir Hills 17/04/55
RAF de Havilland Mosquito The Curr, Cheviot Hills 12/12/44
RAF Vickers Warwick The Cheviot, Cheviot Hills (England/Scotland border) 23/07/46
RAF North American Harvard Mk.IIB Broad Law (C) 16/01/53
RCAF Hawker Hurricane Loch Doon, Galloway Hills 18/03/44
RAF Avro Anson & RAF de Havilland Mosquito Corserine, Rhinns of Kells, Galloway Hills (C) 23/10/42 & 21/01/44
BEA Vickers Viking (civilian) Irish Law, Muirshiel Hills 21/04/48
Percival Prentice (civilian) Kilsyth Hills 30/07/61
RN Fairey Firefly Meikle Bin, Campsie Fells 08/01/50
De Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth (civilian) Blairdenon Hill, Ochil Hills 29/08/57