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.