On March 1st Omni Air N342AX on contract to the US military refuelled at Shannon, coming from Indianapolis. It flew on to Sofia Bulgaria, and from there to Kuwait and Al Udeid US airbase in Qatar. It returned via Sofia on March 2nd and landed at Shannon again at 22.00 on its return journey to the US. 

On arriving at Shannon it had the call-sign CMB (Camber). This indicates it is operating under the US Transportation Command, carrying military cargo or personnel.

We've endorsed the Global Day of Action to #CloseBases on February 23rd. And this sample of what we had at Shannon Airport in the last 2 days demonstrates why.

Omni Air N819AX landed at Shannon last night 2 Feb and took off 3 Feb and flew on to Poznan Nato base in Poland. It landed back at Shannon this evening and is now on its way back to the US.

On Jan 6th there were the following US warplanes at Shannon:

1. US Air Force C17A Globemaster transport aircraft number 08-8201 landed at about 14.46 pm, coming from Rome with a stop at Ramstein US air base in Germany. It took off again about 16.50 and returned to Ramstein Air Base. 
2. US Air Force C17A Globemaster transport aircraft number 04-4128 landed at about 17.30 pm, coming from Ramstein US air base in Germany. It took off again about 19.30 and returned to Ramstein Air Base. 
3. US Marine Corps Hercules KC130J, mid air refuelling aircraft number 16-6764 landed at about 19.25 pm, coming from Glasgow and Oslo.

On Friday Oct 25th, Omni Air N378AX on contract to the US military, landed at Shannon about 05.50am. It came from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and Kuwait with a stop at Sofia in Bulgaria for refueling. It took off again about 09.40am and then flew on to Baltimore in USA.

Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti is the primary base of operations for the US Africa Command.

On Thursday Oct 24^th Omni Air N468AX landed at Shannon from Sofia Bulgaria, and air bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It took off  three and a half hours later heading towards the USA.

Yesterday (October 9th) there were at least 3 US warplanes at Shannon Airport.

US Navy Hercules C130J arrived 2 days ago at about 04.30am coming from Naval Air Station New Orleans, Louisiana. It stayed two overnights and took off again today 9 Oct. about 12.00 noon heading SE towards the Middle East.

US Navy C40 number 16-5831 arrived about 02.26am coming from the same Naval Air Station New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of these aircraft are designed and equipped to transport US military cargo or US troops.

Shannonwatch will hold their monthly peace vigil at Shannon Airport on Sunday October 13th at 2pm. Please join us at the usual location (small roundabout on the way into the airport) to demand that the US use of the airport is ended immediately.

The use of the airport by the US military is unacceptable given the supply of weapons to Israel from the US. We know that some of those weapons have gone through Irish airspace, and that US military and diplomatic flights to Israel pass through Shannon. And we know that those flights are never inspected.

Over a five day period, Omni Air aircraft registration number N342AX made three refuelling stops at Shannon Airport. On 20th September it landed at about 11.20am at Shannon, coming from Baltimore in the US. It took off again about 14.15 and flew on to Kuwait in the Persian Gulf. From there it also flew on to an airport in north-west India near the border with Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region.

At a rally outside Shannon Airport on September 8^th Shannonwatch and the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) presented a letter to An Garda Siochana calling on them to inspect US military and military contracted aircraft using Shannon Airport.

Shannonwatch are appalled by reports that flights carrying munitions to Israel have been flying through Irish airspace since October 2023, and call for decisive action from the government to end Irish complicity in the supply of weapons being used to murder Palestinians.

Details published by The Ditch indicate that on at least six occasions Ireland’s weak oversight policies were breached by cargo airlines carrying detonators, missile safety and arming devices, explosives that propel rounds of ammunition from firearms, and other munitions of war.

Join Shannonwatch and the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign for a National Mobilisation at Shannon Airport on Sunday 8th September, between 2pm and 3.30pm, to say ‘Stop Arming Israel – No weapons or military flights to Israel through Shannon!’

Ten months into Apartheid Israel’s genocide in Gaza and brutality in the West Bank, the US and other states continue to supply weapons, ammunition and other forms of support to Israel – making them directly complicit in these heinous crimes against humanity. The Irish government steadfastly refuses to inspect US warplanes that stop at Shannon Airport or otherwise use Irish airspace. This is unconscionable!