RAF Nutts Corner

Royal Air Force Nutts Corner, or more simply RAF Nutts Corner, is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 2.7 miles (4.3 km) east of Crumlin, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and 9.2 miles (14.8 km) north west of Belfast.

The site was selected for use as an Royal Air Force (RAF) airfield in mid-1940 and within months construction was accorded high priority, enabling No.

220 Squadron arrived from RAF Wick in January 1942 with Lockheed Hudsons and soon began converting to Boeing Fortress I, flying the first sortie with the type on 29 April before transferring to Ballykelly on 20 June.

As Nutts Corner had been selected as trans-Atlantic reception centre 120 Squadron Moved to Ballykelly in July 1942 and the following year the first USAAF United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses began to arrive.

[1] In July 1945 the airfield began a period of use by the Royal Navy, commissioned as HMS Pintail but was returned to RAF control in April 1946.

The airfield was used from 1984 to 2004 for events such as the Irish Superbike Championships and Rallycross, but it was restricted due to noise complaints from local residents.

A British European Airways , Vickers Viscount at Nutts Corner Airport in 1960