Its initial composition was:[2] The wing was subsequently augmented with: Preparations for bombing missions started immediately and only six days later two flights of de Havilland aircraft conducted the Flying Corps' first long-range bombing mission.

A week later Handley Page aircraft of the 41st Wing conducted the first night-time long range operation.

The 41st Wing continued to exist as a subordinate formation of the VIII Brigade and it received a new commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel J E A Baldwin.

[4] Two months later on 1 April 1918, with the amalgamation of the RFC and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), it became part of the RAF.

Following the end of the war it was probably transferred back to the Royal Air Force in the Field and was disbanded on 15 February 1919.