[3] On 3 May 1942, No 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit moved to RAF Turnberry, upon the airfields eventual completion.

[6] It added Handley Page Hampden, a British twin-engine medium bomber, to its inventory, operating alongside the Bristol Beaufort and Avro Anson.

Its two primary tasks were to train aircrew in bombing and torpedo attacks, along with a type conversion course.

[9] At this point the unit was operating with Bristol Beaufighter, Lockheed Ventura, Lockheed Hudson, Vickers Warwick, a British twin-engined multi-purpose aircraft, Airspeed Oxford and Miles Martinet, a target tug aircraft, and later on it also added Vickers Wellington, a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber, to its inventory.

[3] On 1 August 1945, No 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit disbanded at RAF Turnberry,[1] and the Vickers Warwick activity was transferred to No.