RAF Nutts Corner
About
RAF Nutts Corner opened in County Antrim in Northern Ireland in 1941 as a Coastal Command station in the Battle of the Atlantic. Consolidated Liberators of No. 120 Squadron and other aircraft flew long anti-submarine patrols over the ocean from it, and the airfield also served as a reception centre for American aircraft flown across the Atlantic. After the war it briefly became a Royal Navy station and then Belfast’s main civil airport, a role it held until operations moved to Aldergrove in 1963. The site is now disused, the A26 road running over part of the old runway.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Nutts Corner (Belfast) — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Nutts Corner — Wikipedia. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
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