3 FTS currently provide elementary flying training for RAF and Royal Navy students on the Grob Prefect T.1.

It was earmarked for basing troop carrier units scheduled to be transferred from Sicily to participate in the forthcoming cross-Channel invasion, Operation Overlord.

[3] The first US personnel arrived on 13 February from Sciacca, Sicily, and most of their Douglas C-47 Skytrains on the 17th and 18th, although not all aircraft were in place until a month later.

The headquarters of the 61st Troop Carrier Group moved to an Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) at Abbeville (ALG B-92), France, on 13 March 1945, but its squadrons went to RAF Chipping Ongar from where they participated in Operation Varsity on 24 March carrying British paratroops who dropped near Wesel.

[3][5] The USAAF returned control of the airfield to the Air Ministry in June 1945 when the war in Europe ended.

[3] From 1983 to 1989 Barkston was home to 'A' Flight 25 Squadron (with Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missiles) when they returned from RAF Bruggen in Germany.

[7] 674 Squadron AAC operated the Slingsby Firefly in the 1990s through to around 2007, the Grob 115 Tutor from around 2007 until acquisition of the Prefect T1 turboprop trainer in the late 2010s.

1 Flying Training School (1 FTS) at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire, whereas fast jet students move onto No.

The station is also regularly used as relief landing ground by aircraft based at nearby RAF Cranwell.

22 Group (Training) RAF This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency