Yorkshire members of The Few – including local Spitfire pilot Ronald Berry and, for a short spell, high-scoring fighter ace James "Ginger" Lacey – honed their flying skills whilst at the Brough Flying Training School on Blackburn B-2 biplanes.

The company became part of British Aerospace and later BAE Systems and the site continues to build and support military aircraft.

The airfield closed in the early 1990s after the daily shuttle flights to BAe Warton ended due to cost-cutting.

On 7 September 2007, however, the company announced that it intended to fly all future Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer aircraft[5] from Brough to Warton at a rate of two per month.

[6] At the end of April 2009, an F-35 Lightning II static test airframe arrived at Brough Aerodrome.