There was a proposal to develop Langstone harbour as a great terminal flying boat base for services throughout the Commonwealth.
The island was also used as a flying boat base by Qantas for a period of time.
They flew out of a flying boat base on Lough Erne and through the Donegal Corridor.
In the 1930s and 40s one west Wales town played host to the largest flying boat base the country had ever seen - maybe even the world.
These days the old dockyard and the flying boat base operate as the terminal for ferry boats across the Irish Sea.
Many famous airmen served at PD, as the flying boat base soon became known.
In December 1940 a survey was carried out on Lough Erne with a view to having flying boat bases built there.
It served as an important motor torpedo boat base to harass Japanese barge lines and a base for air support in the Solomons.
At one time this was the largest flying boat base in the world.
A flying boat base was built by the Americans at Ely Lodge in 1941 and American troops were based there from 1942 to 1944.
