416 Flight at RAF Newtownards as an army co-operation squadron equipped with Westland Lysanders.

In September 1941 conversion to Curtiss Tomahawks began, but a flight of Lysanders was retained until July 1943.

In March 1943 the squadron moved to Yorkshire but left a detachment in Ulster until July, and in April North American Mustangs began to arrive.

Shipping and weather reconnaissance missions, defensive patrols and ground attack sorties over northern France were flown until the squadron disbanded on 15 January 1944.

231's Coronado flying boats operated between North America, West Africa and the UK, using Largs as its British terminal.

[2] On 1 December 1945, a flight was formed to train Avro Lancastrian crews at RAF Full Sutton but its task was taken over by the station when No.

There is however a black-and-white photograph of an unofficial insignia affixed to an entry dated 30 March 1942 in the Pilots Log Book of Kenneth Oliver Peachey.