[2] Logistical and support functions were located at RAF West Ruislip, leased by the United States Navy from the Ministry of Defence.

[4] A school for the children of American service personnel was established at RAF Eastcote in the 1950s, later joined by other welfare facilities.

[5] In 1970, American teenagers Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley, whose fathers were stationed at the base, formed the folk rock group America.

[7] In 1972 the Third Air Force moved operations from the station to RAF Mildenhall.

Thereafter, the buildings that had formed the main part of the base on Victoria Road stood empty until they were demolished in 1995,[9] but were briefly used by the BBC as a filming location for the final series of the popular television police drama Z Cars in 1977 and 1978.