It's Scotland's busiest airport, handling around 14 million passengers and welcoming thousands of commercial flights every year, but the modern-day Edinburgh Airport would still be an airbase if not for the outbreak of the Second World War.
Opened as RAF Turnhouse in 1918, what is now Edinburgh Airport remained under military control until 1947, with the launch of its first commercial flights and has expanded as a passenger airport ever since.
And yet the Turnhouse facility had never been intended for passenger aircraft. In the late 1930s, just prior to Britain entering the war, plans were afoot to open a civil airport for Edinburgh more than 17 miles away at Macmerry Aerodrome in East Lothian.
