Plans have been revealed for a wind turbine project at a former wartime base in rural Buchan.
Camp Crimond was originally built as a hospital during World War II to treat casualties from the nearby Rattray airfield.
Several buildings were created at the rural 20-acre site with the intention of giving burns victims quick access to medical staff.
But the war came to a close just as the buildings were being completed and the site was never used as a hospital.
When the airfield shut in 1946, the camp was converted into a series of shelters for pigs.
Now a proposal has been tabled with Aberdeenshire Council to instal a 260ft turbine on the site.
Inverurie-based Farm Energy Consulting has lodged an application for planning permission, which is expected to come before councillors in the coming weeks.
Members of the public have been given three weeks to submit any comments on the environmental impact of the plan.
The bid will also be scrutinised by, among others, the RSPB, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Ministry of Defence, which recently called for a moratorium on all turbine plans near its rural Buchan radar base.
The little-known wartime camp went on the market with a £85,000 price tag in 2006.
Proposals to transform the area for housing were lodged as part of the Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan in 2009.
Aberdeen-based Halliday Fraser Munro said the move would clear up the site, which has become an eyesore in recent years.
The old wartime buildings have lain derelict for decades and have become a target for vandals and a hangout for gangs.
Nearby Rattray airfield – as it was then known – was built in 1943 and originally had four runways.
It was home to several Barracuda aircraft training units from 1944.
But because of the Barracudas’ notorious handling, there were frequent crashes. Four of them were wrecked or damaged by hitting towers, aerials and other planes.