[1] Also located nearby during World War II were the ground training camps of the Delta.

In 1949, The Aircraft Repair Depot RNZAF was relocated from Ohakea, and in 1951 the Boy Entrant School was established at Woodbourne.

[citation needed] Woodbourne was the Air Force's only heavy maintenance facility for the repair of aircraft airframes, engines and avionics systems.

SAFE Air Ltd formally relinquished the name and now trades under Airbus Asia Pacific.

[citation needed] In 2024 the three local Māori iwi (tribes) entities Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Kuia and the Rangitāne o Wairau Settlement Trust decided to accept $25 million for a treaty settlement in view of the chemical contamination of the base's land.