Two of the squadrons combined to form 9 Training Depot Station on 1 March 1918, the other moving to Gloucestershire.

11 Service Flying Training School and an Aircraft Storage Unit (ASU) which was operated by No.

[9] Shawbury primarily prepared pilots for operational squadrons, with the main aircraft being the Airspeed Oxford.

27 Maintenance Unit continued its aircraft storage and scrapping work at Shawbury until disbandment in July 1972.

2 Flying Training School was disbanded in March 1997 so that in April 1997 the station could start providing training of helicopter pilots for all three of the UK's armed services, under the newly formed Defence Helicopter Flying School.

[21] Other changes included the DHFS becoming a sub-unit of the Shawbury station headquarters, rather than an independent lodger unit, which it had been since in creation in 1997.

[22] The School of Aerospace Battle Management, part of the Defence College of Air and Space Operations, moved to Shawbury from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland in August 2019.

[24] RAF Shawbury's mission statement is "To provide a safe, efficient, and effective airfield base environment; to enable and support, commanded, lodged and parented units; and to deliver wider Defence and RAF tasks as directed".

1 FTS) (formerly the Defence Helicopter Flying School) provides basic helicopter pilot training for the RAF, Royal Navy and Army Air Corps (AAC), as well as foreign and commonwealth countries, using twenty-nine Airbus Juno HT1.

[27] Airbus provides and maintains the helicopters and Babcock and Lockheed Martin have contracts for infrastructure and ground Based Training Equipment.

[16] Four classes per annum year go through Shawbury on six-month Basic Rotary courses, two with 705 NAS and two with No.

[31] The School of Aerospace Battle Management, part of the Defence College of Airspace Control, moved to Shawbury from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland in August 2019.

These aircraft are stored in four specially de-humidified hangars at different states of readiness and can be brought back into active service if required.

Other aircraft types which are no longer required for operational service are also stored pending their disposal.

[34] In January 2020, the RAF announced that four additional Jupiter HT1 and further simulator would be acquired for No.1 Flying Training School.

The UKMFTS contract amendment worth £183 million is to create further rear crew training capacity.

The additional aircraft and simulator are expected to be based at RAF Shawbury, where infrastructure will also be enhanced to accommodate extra students.