[1] Accommodation was in 10 dispersal sites to the north and east of the airfield near Tranwell village and The Whitehouse Centre (post-war this became a children's hospital).

The main aircraft used during its early existence for teaching air gunners was the unpopular Blackburn Botha, which was very heavy and under-powered, often taking the whole of the runway to get airborne.

Most of the air gunnery practice occurred off shore at Druridge Bay where several of the original wartime structures still exist at the National Trust site, and flew between Newbiggin by the Sea and Coquet Island near Amble.

A large number of Polish casualties including airmen from the airfield are buried in the graveyard of St Mary's Church, Morpeth.

A small privately owned part to the North West is used for a car boot sale every Sunday between March and November.