It became the Royal Flying Corps Mousehold Heath aerodrome during the First World War and was the location where Boulton & Paul, among other local manufacturers, passed over the aircraft they had built into the hands of the RFC.

It was sometimes also known as Norwich aerodrome by the RFC On the formation of the RAF in April 1918, it became "Royal Air Force Mousehold Heath".

Rather than deliver aircraft there, Boulton & Paul suggested putting an aerodrome on the Cavalry Drill Ground to the north of Norwich.

[1] This was accepted and Boulton & Paul gained a contract for the buildings to house an RFC School of Flying on the new aerodrome; No.

In October 1915, the first aircraft built by Boulton & Paul, a FE2b serial 5201 and marked "Bombay No.1" flew from Mousehold.