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Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

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Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

Post by vulcanxl425 » Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:15 pm

Have produced a record hopefully fairly accurate for Lossie visitors for 2021, with 2020 largely being limited in movements due to ongoing runway work that year has not been used for comparison.By October 2020 most work was finished with the return from Kinloss of the P-8s and Typhoons as well coming back from Leuchars.
2021 has of course with Covid meant restrictions for some of us viewing but this did not stop some people travelling some considerable distances flouting lockdown rules.

Comparing 2021 to 2019 as follows
Military visitors 249 (2021) 194 (2019)
Civil visitors 35 (2021) 67 (2019)

Top visiting a/c types 1) Typhoon with joint second Hawks and Voyagers. Significant change for Voyagers now a regular visitor unlike in the past. Now accounting for 10% of all visitors.

Highlights during the year perhaps the following
April WA638 Meteor T7/MOD
" ZZ191 Hunter F58
July 5119 C-130H French AF
Aug 2 x Mirage 2000D
Sep N190TC Sky Guardian
Oct 4576 P-3N RNor AF
Nov/Dec Swiss FA-18s and 6 x CF-18s RCAF

CXX Squadron at Lossie received their new Standard ,this year a further four P-8s arrived with only ZP809 to follow, probably next month. 10 US Navy P-8s visited with welcome return of P-3s and one ATL2.

Finally special thanks to Bluetail (Jim) and np1991 (Niall) for posting logs and supplying local information during the year.

Just remains to wish you all a Happy New Year.
Al

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Re: Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

Post by np1991 » Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:28 pm

Cheers Al as always for this. Great to see an improvement in visitors. Hopefully 2022 sees this continue.

Happy New Year to all, have a great year everyone.
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Re: Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

Post by daggerfan » Sat Jan 01, 2022 5:10 pm

Thanks for those figures Al. I am pleasantly surprised that the visitor number for 2021 is up on the 2019 count. With fairly recent visits by US Army aircraft to Inverness and Wick, of all places, I was seriously beginning to think that Lossie was actively discouraging visitors!

Happy New Year to one and all.

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Re: Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

Post by chrisov » Sat Jan 01, 2022 5:55 pm

Many thanks Al.
Happy NewYear to you and yours and all readers.

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Re: Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

Post by Bluetail » Sun Jan 02, 2022 11:44 am

Many thanks Al.
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Re: Lossiemouth 2021 Visitor Statistics

Post by Lewis MacRae » Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:28 pm

Thanks for this, always look forward to this annual post.

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