Based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, 24 Squadron is responsible for aircrew training on A400M Atlas and C-17 Globemaster.

[3] During the General Strike of 1926, because of the lack of a postal services, the squadron was used to deliver government dispatches around the country.

It provided a detachment in France to run courier services, but with the withdrawal of British troops it was soon used to evacuate men back to England.

[3] The squadron had grown into a large organisation, with a network of routes around the United Kingdom and eventually extended to India.

[3] After many years the squadron had to leave RAF Hendon in February 1946 as the airfield was now too small to operate the larger Yorks and Avro Lancastrians.

It celebrated 40 years of Hercules operation in 2008 and remained at Lyneham until July 2011 when the squadron relocated to RAF Brize Norton.

24 Squadron is currently responsible for the provision of training to aircrews flying the C17 Globemaster and A400M Atlas aircraft, and formerly the C130J Hercules until its retirement in 2023.