Guidance

MOD sponsored, current or planned exercise list 30 September to 6 October 2024

Updated 25 September 2024

Exercise Merlin Storm

Date

16 September to 4 October 2024

Times

8.30am to 1.30pm

Aircraft type

Multiple rotary

Areas

LFA 14

LFA 15

LFA 1A

LFA 1BE

LFA 1C

LFA 1D

Cairngorm SAR HNTA

Inverness SAR HNTA

Tain ROA

Counties affected (day)

LFA 14

Outer Hebrides 

Highland 

Moray 

Aberdeenshire 

Angus 

Perth & Kinross 

Fife 

Argyll & Bute

North Ayrshire

Isle of Arran

Inverclyde

West Dunbartonshire

Clackmannanshire

LFA 15

Aberdeenshire

Counties affected (night)

LFA 1A 

Highland 

Argyll & Bute 

Stirling 

Perth & Kinross 

Aberdeenshire 

Angus 

LFA 1BE 

Highland  

LFA 1C

Highland 

Moray 

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Perth & Kinross 

LFA 1D 

Moray 

Exercise Cobra Warrior

Date

16 September to 4 October 2024

Times

9am to 11.30pm

Aircraft type

Nil

Areas

LFA 7

LFA 12

LFA 13

LFA 16

LFA 17

NS 2A

NS 2B

NS 3BE

NS 3BW

NS 4AN

NS 4AS

Counties affected (day)

LFA 7 

Gwynedd

Clywd

Powys

Dyfed

Glamorganshire

Gwent

LFA 12

Northumberland

Tyne & Wear

Durham

North Yorkshire

LFA 13

Scottish Borders

Northumberland

Cumbria

LFA 16

Scottish Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

South Ayrshire

East Ayrshire

Sou th Lanarkshire

Inverclyde

West Dunbartonshire

Renfrewshire

East Renfrewshire

Glasgow

East Dunbartonshire

North Lanarkshire

Clackmannanshire

Falkirk

West Lothian

Edinburgh

Midlothian

East Lothian

LFA 17

Cumbria

Durham

North Yorkshire

Lancashire

Counties affected (night)

NS 2A

Fife

Midlothian

East Lothian

Scottish Borders

NS 2B 

Isle of Arran

North Ayrshire

West Dunbartonshire

Renfrewshire

East Renfrewshire

Glasgow

East Dunbartonshire

NS 3BW 

Cumbria 

North Yorkshire 

Lancashire 

NS 4AN 

Northumberland

NS 4AS 

Northumberland

Tyne & Wear

Durham

North Yorkshire