RAF Long Kesh
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RAF Long Kesh was built near Lisburn in Northern Ireland and opened in 1941. As well as fighter and coastal squadrons — a Spitfire unit, an RCAF Catalina squadron and a coastal operational training unit among them — it served as an assembly point where Short Stirling bombers were put together. The RAF left in 1947. The site later gained grim fame when it became the Long Kesh internment camp and then the Maze prison during the Northern Ireland Troubles; today its wartime hangars house the Ulster Aviation Society’s aircraft collection.
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