The Mull of Kintyre Air Show held at Campbeltown Airport on Saturday and Sunday attracted more than 11,000 visitors, exceeding the organisers’ expectations.

The event, the largest of its kind held at the airport, was expected to attract more than 8,000 visitors but saw this number of people attending on the Sunday alone.

More than 80 aircraft visited the airport over the weekend when attractions included fly ins by vintage and classic aircraft, a fly past by a US Air Force Rockwell B1-B Lancer strategic bomber and a host of displays, stalls, motorbike stunt riding, vintage cars and flight simulator rides.

The weekend was organised by Kintyre and Argyll Events Limited, a partnership of Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, the council and local enterprise company which was formed to organise the previous air show in 2003.

The impressive array of attractions also included the Red Bull Matadors, Utterly Butterly aircraft, helicopter pleasure flights by Lothian Helicopters, RAF Hawk aircraft from 208 Squadron, a Dakota DC3 from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the RAF Falcons parachute display team.

Derrick Lang, Highlands and Islands Airports’ acting regional manager south said: “The air show was a huge success and exceeded all our expectations in terms of visitor numbers. It was a great opportunity for the area to promote itself to visitors and will have had a considerable impact on tourism revenues locally.

“We would like to thank everyone who has helped to make the weekend such a huge success and look forward to calling on their support for future events.”