As of , 1. The airport is owned and operated by AviAlliance which bought the airport from AGS Airports in [ 3 ] , and also owns and operates Glasgow and Southampton airports. Aberdeen Airport is a base for Eastern Airways and Loganair.
The airport also serves as the main heliport for the offshore North Sea oil and gas industry. With the utilisation of newer aircraft, helicopters can reach northernmost platforms on both the east and west of Shetland.
The airport has a main passenger terminal, serving all scheduled and charter holiday flights. There is also an additional small terminal adjacent to the main passenger terminal, used only for specific oil company charter flights to Sumburgh in Shetland. The airport opened on 28 July as Dyce Aerodrome. Although fighter aircraft were based at Dyce throughout the Battle of Britain to provide protection from German bombing raids launched from Occupied Norway , it was mainly used as a photographic reconnaissance station.
The aim of this site was to create the impression of an active airfield during the night. The decoy worked on around four occasions, where several raids resulted in bombs being dropped on the decoy site. The decoy site had a small underground bunker that housed a generator.
Near the airport off the A96 road , to deter German gliders landing to attack RAF Dyce, the flat areas across from Concraig Farm between Blackurn and Kintore had wooden poles erected as anti-glider landing poles. A Supermarine Spitfire IIa crashed at the east side of the airfield on 19 November during attack practice with a target glider being towed. Flying Officer Zaoral is buried in the old Dyce graveyard, where some German aircrew are also buried that crashed in Aberdeen in In May , a German Junkers Ju 88 night-fighter landed at Dyce; it was flown to Scotland by its crew, who wanted to defect to the Allies.
