1986

• Foula Lighthouse was first lit.
• Hoo Stack Lighthouse was first lit.

New Secondary extension is opened at Scalloway Junior Secondary School and name is changed to Scalloway Junior High School.

May

• 4th
  Election of the Shetland Islands Council.

July

• 10th
  Local musician Jack Sandison born (Little Green Machine, Stagger Rats)
• 25th
  Official naming ceremony for the Aith Lifeboat Snolda.

November

• 5th
  The Connaught, a motor fishing vessel, registered in Britain, caught fire and sank at a position approx 50 miles SE of Shetland.
• 6th
  Chinook helicopter crash north east of Sumburgh Airport 45 of the 47 souls on board were lost.
  
• Newsreel video following the crash

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