[9] During the Battle of Britain, the station was a temporary home to many other squadrons of Fighter Command which made short stays here to rest and re-group.

202 Squadron became the first SAR unit to rescue people off of Britain's first offshore oil rig, the Sea Gem.

The rig had capsized on the 27 December 1965 and the crew of a Whirlwind rescued three men from the freezing water in a horrendous snowstorm.

[25] In the 1970s the control tower at Leconfield developed a reputation for being haunted by a Flight Lieutenant who had been killed, along with an airman passenger, when a Meteor 7 he was piloting crashed when coming into land in 1956.

[5] RAF Leconfield archive footage from summer 1961 shows Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother going to tea at the home of Sgt Denys French and family, including his daughter Dawn French, aged 3 years and 9 months.

DST Leconfield is Europe's largest driver training establishment, the accommodation is designated as Normandy Barracks.

The Search and rescue function has been assumed by the Maritime and Coastguard agency based at Humberside Airport.