 617 Squadron Lancasters, as the filmmakers only had three airworthy and fully-flying Lancasters available to them.In 1972 the station became the temporary "Hemswell Resettlement Camp" when it received Ugandan-Asian refugees expelled from Uganda by president Idi Amin.After Hemswell closed on 3 April 1985 the entire technical and domestic site was sold by the Property Services Agency in its entirety to Roger Byron-Collins' company the Welbeck Estate Group.