Whitecairns is a village in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, lying 3.6 km north of Potterton and 9.7 km south of Pitmedden on the B999 road.

Transport

Regular bus services link Whitecairns with Potterton and Aberdeen to the south, and with Pitmedden and Tarves to the north.

Decoy airfield

During the Second World War, Harestone Moss, close to Whitecairns was set up as a decoy site for RAF Dyce airfield. This was to trick the Luftwaffe into thinking that this was Dyce airfield at night. The decoy was bombed on several occasions, two craters are still present today. This decoy site had a bunker that housed a generator used to power the dummy airfield lights.