 The unit had moved from RAF Hucknall and at Bircotes the unit was using Miles Masters, Airspeed Oxfords, Miles Martinets, Tomahawks and Westland Lysanders.Towards the end of the Second World War and afterwards a number of different units used the airfield such as No.250 Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) which formed at the airfield while under the control of RAF Maintenance Command and No.