RAF Oakington

5 Flying Training School RAF (5 FTS), which reformed at the airfield on 1 June 1954.

In March 1962 these types were exchanged for the Vickers Varsity T.1 twin piston-engine pilot trainers.

The airfield's land area had contracted after the war, and much evidence of this former military use is visible in farmland surrounding the current perimeter.

[5] In 2000 the station domestic area was leased to the Home Office, and converted for use as Oakington Immigration Reception Centre until November 2010.

[6] Demolition of parts of the site commenced in late January 2011 by the contractor Sovereign Plant Ltd. Work started on the first 1500 homes and related facilities in 2014.

Vickers Varsity navigation trainer of No.5 FTS in 1971