RAF Killadeas

RAF Killadeas stood on the shore of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, using a bay of the lough as its alighting area for flying boats. Opened in 1942 under Coastal Command, it was chiefly a training base: No. 131 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit prepared flying-boat crews there, flying Consolidated Catalinas and later Short Sunderlands over the lough and the Atlantic approaches, while No. 240 Squadron had earlier operated from the site. A maintenance unit took over after the war until the last personnel left in 1947. Most of the wartime buildings have gone, though slipways, hard-standings and a hangar survive, and the shoreline is now home to the Lough Erne Yacht Club.