RAF Kirkistown
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RAF Kirkistown was laid out on the Ards peninsula at Portavogie in County Down, Northern Ireland, and opened in July 1941 as a fighter satellite of nearby Ballyhalbert. Spitfire squadrons — including No. 504 and the New Zealanders of No. 485 — flew air-defence patrols from it, and from 1945 it passed to the Fleet Air Arm, whose units flew Fairey Swordfish, Fulmars and Seafires. Flying ended after the war, and since 1953 the northern part of the airfield has formed the Kirkistown motor-racing circuit, while one former runway survives as a public road.
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