Ashaig Float Planes

It’s not been that uncommon seeing float equiped aircraft at Ashaig, here are three from the same company all in different liveries.  All three have been pretty common visitors over the years, with the Cutty Sark livery being quite short lived as a result of a BBC requirement. I do have some pictures of it just in the plain yellow scheme, I’ll maybe ammend the post a bit later.

The company Loch Lomond Sea Planes made a number of attempts to organise pleasure flights both from Ashaig and Portree, but from the conversations that I had with the people associated with the venture they weren’t a great success.

The dining flights that they did were much more viable, but they now have the same Covid-19 problems as everybody else. The recovery from this is likely to take long and weary, it may well be that the post Covid world is pretty similar to the during Covid world with sporadic lock downs etc…

Many people I’m sure would like to see an air service return to Skye, there have been several lines of investigation into how feasible it all is. However I can say from my time living there that the local MP didn’t even acknowledge my communications and that was before he was the Westminster leader of the SNP.

I have heard figures for the requirements for the development of the airport, but to be truthful there needs to be significant work done. With a 770m runway, the list of suitable aircraft is a bit restricted.

Having now moved from Skye, I don’t actually have a serious leaning one way or the other now in respect of an air service. But I can honestly say that I wish I hadn’t had to do the 800,000 miles of driving over time I lived there.