431 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force as part of 4 Group RAF Bomber Command which formed at the airfield on 13 November 1942 flying Vickers Wellington Mark X aircraft while at Burn.

On 21 January 1944 the squadron returned, this time staying until 14 March 1944 when they moved to RAF Collyweston.

III before disbanding on 15 April 1945[6] and the station was closed for flying operations in July 1945.

[5] On the night of 30 March 1944, Pilot Officer Cyril Joe Barton took off from RAF Burn in Halifax LK797 for a raid on Nuremberg, and won a posthumous Victoria Cross for valour.

Shortly after flying was discontinued, the Royal Army Service Corps took over some facilities to store surplus equipment.