IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Glasgow Prestwick Intnl Airport, PRESTWICK, KA9 2RW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to KA9 2RW by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (10 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Prestwick Airport near Monkton
The launch of a new "Caravan" for MAF on its way to Tanzania
Image: © G McK
Taken: 1 Aug 2003
0.10 miles
2
Prestwick Airport, Scotland.
A Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet taking off to cross the Atlantic Ocean to America. A Boeing 707 of Canadian Airlines is nearest the camera with another Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet parked beyond the 707.
Image: © P Flannagan
Taken: 16 Jul 1973
0.20 miles
3
Spirit Aerosystems building
Part of an aircraft component factory complex by the main runway at Prestwick International Airport. Wing parts for various types of aircraft are produced in the complex which employs 750 people. Click on this http://www.spiritaero.com/aero.aspx?id=1113 for more information.
The art deco building began its life in 1938 at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow as the Palace Of Engineering during the Empire Exhibition. It was dismantled and moved to Prestwick in 1941, during WWII. See it under construction at Bellahouston here http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw056035?search=glasgow&ref=57&quicktabs_image=0#quicktabs-image .
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 9 May 2011
0.21 miles
4
Spirit Aerosystems building
Part of an aircraft component factory complex by the main runway at Prestwick International Airport. Wing parts for various types of aircraft are produced in the complex which employs 750 people. Click on this http://www.spiritaero.com/aero.aspx?id=1113 for more information.
The art deco building began its life in 1938 at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow as the Palace Of Engineering during the Empire Exhibition. It was dismantled and moved to Prestwick in 1941, during WWII. See it under construction at Bellahouston here http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw056035?search=glasgow&ref=57&quicktabs_image=0#quicktabs-image .
Viewed from a Brussels bound Ryanair aircraft.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 1 Mar 2010
0.21 miles
5
A fly past by Avro Vulcan XH558 at Prestwick Airport
This impressive Vulcan V-force bomber, which had earlier displayed at the Scottish Airshow at Ayr Low Green, entertained plane spotters at Glasgow Prestwick Airport with a flyby before landing at the airport. XH558 ‘The Spirit of Great Britain’ is the last remaining airworthy Vulcan.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 6 Sep 2014
0.22 miles
6
A spirit building
A building at Prestwick Airport with an art-deco appearance that has its origins in the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1936. Once used by Scottish Aviation Limited, it is now the home of Spirit Aerosystems.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 18 Aug 2010
0.23 miles
7
Just landed
On runway 31, Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. Looking south west from the runway towards Prestwick, with St Cuthbert's ex-Parish Church [now St Cuthbert's New Life Christian Centre] visible just beyond the airfield boundary.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 23 Jun 2010
0.23 miles
8
Boeing C-17 Globemaster at Prestwick
A military transport aircraft of the US Airforce at Prestwick International Airport - id.4433, part of the USAF 105th AW137, from McGuire Base, New York.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 21 Apr 2013
0.24 miles
9
The Spirit building at Prestwick
A building at Prestwick Airport with an art-deco appearance that has its origins in the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1936. Once used by Scottish Aviation Limited, it is now the home of Spirit Aerosystems.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.24 miles
10
Prestwick Airport from the air
A mish-mash of runways and taxiways is visible through a gap in the clouds.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 31 Aug 2015
0.24 miles