One of the highlights of the 2014 Farnborough Air Show was the announcement of a plan from the UK government to select a site for the first commercial spaceport to be located in Britain. After the selection of a site, the schedule was to build a commercial spaceport which would begin operations by 2018. Seven years later, in 2021, we are still waiting but new plans are now under way for the creation of not one but seven spaceports around the UK. In the original 2014 plan a total of eight sites were considered for possible selection, six of which were in Scotland. These comprised: Campbeltown Airport, Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Kinloss Barracks, RAF Lossiemouth, Stornoway Airport, RAF Leuchars, Llanbedr Airport and Newquay Cornwall Airport. In 2015, this list had been reduced to six possible sites, as RAF Lossiemouth and Kinloss Barracks were dropped due to operational defence reasons. In 2016, RAF Leuchers was also removed from the contenders. In May 2016, the competition was ended with no final selection being made.
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