© Courtesy Roddie Reid

It’s Aberdeen’s gateway to the world… but the city’s bustling international airport has grown beyond recognition from its humble origins almost 90 years ago.
It was opened at Dyce in July 1934 by the airport’s founding father, the flamboyant Eric Gandar Dower, to launch his pioneering airline, Aberdeen Airways – later Allied Airways – initially serving the Northern Isles.
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