[2] The station badge showed a Manx Shearwater bird on one of the many islands that lie off the eastern Pembrokeshire coastline.

[9] Initially, the seaplane service only operated and carried out maintenance from a specially adapted floating dock known as HMS Flat Iron.

The Squadron would leave and return four times over the history of the base, but it was not active at Pembroke Dock during the Second World War.

228 Sqn was allocated to RAF Pembroke Dock 5 times, often for short intervals where individual aircraft from the Squadron were detached out to other bases.

[19] The flying boat squadrons operating from Pembroke Dock, were occupied with a myriad of tasks during the Second World War.

[20] The squadron also had responsibility for convoy escort duties in the Atlantic[21] and also as hunter killers in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW).

461 Sqn (11 Crew, 9 Australian, 2 British)[22] was attacked whilst on an ASR patrol over the Bay of Biscay by 8 Junkers Ju 88 fighter aircraft.

The crew managed to down three of the enemy aircraft, but limped home with an airframe like a colander[24] due to the strafing bullet runs that the Junkers 88s had taken against it.

201 Sqn was transferred from RAF Castle Archdale in Northern Ireland to help blockade the invasion area for D-Day.

230 Sqn were part of a 640 flying aircraft display put on at RAF Odiham for the Queen's Coronation Review.

[30] The eastern hangar was used in 1979 for a project nicknamed the Magic Roundabout to build a full-scale Millennium Falcon for use in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back.

[51] Royal Air Force Station Pembroke Dock's badge, which was approved and issued in January 1948,[5] featured a Manx Shearwater seabird on one of the many islands that lie off the eastern Pembrokeshire coastline.

[3] The station's Welsh motto; Gwylio'r gorllewin o'r awyr which translates into English as "To watch the west from the air".

[52][53] Other parts of the dockyard, such as the spillways have been lost in the reconstruction of the dock for the cross Irish Sea ferry to Rosslare.

It is located in the former chapel of the Royal Dockyard and now houses a replica Sunderland cockpit with working controls that allow for a simulated flight over Milford Haven's estuary.

Due to the age and weather exposure of the aircraft, she was moved to the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon in 1971.

The aircraft (T9044) has lain underneath 60 feet (18 m) of water since 1940 and has had various parts of its airframe already lifted out and cleaned to be put on display.