[1] The station was in use during the Second World War as a training base and was located between the villages of Kingstone and Madley.

[5] The site was visited in 1944 prior to D-Day by US General George S. Patton, and later by Rudolf Hess (who had been held prisoner near Abergavenny) on his way to the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.

On Christmas Day 1944, a Liberator crashed in the station environs which precipitated the usual search for the crew.

[2] This had proved fruitless as the crew had baled out over Belgium as they assumed the heavily flak-damaged aircraft was about to crash.

[7] The comedian and actor Eric Sykes was a radio operator at RAF Madley during the Second World War.