RAF Leconfield

Military conversion and strategic realignment. The station's role was changed from a front-line flying base to a ground-based logistics and training hub for the UK Armed Forces. This shift was part of a wider defence review and consolidation of RAF assets, which made a full-scale airfield redundant for the site's new, primary purpose. The final departure of the SAR flight in 2015 was due to the privatisation of the UK's search and rescue helicopter service.

The site is an active and important military installation known as Leconfield Camp or Normandy Barracks. It is home to the Defence School of Transport (DST), which is the central driver training establishment for all three branches of the UK Armed Forces (British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force). The extensive network of former runways, taxiways, and hardstandings has been repurposed into a comprehensive driver training area, used to teach personnel how to operate a vast range of military vehicles, from Land Rovers to heavy goods vehicles and armoured personnel carriers.

RAF Leconfield has a rich and significant history. Opened in December 1936 as part of the pre-war RAF expansion, it served as a key station for RAF Bomber Command during World War II. Squadrons based at Leconfield flew aircraft such as the Handley Page Hampden and Halifax on strategic bombing missions over occupied Europe. After the war, it transitioned to a front-line station for RAF Fighter Command during the Cold War. It was a vital part of the UK's air defence network, hosting squadrons of Gloster Meteor and Hawker Hunter jets, and later, the supersonic English Electric Lightning interceptor. In its final years as a flying station, it was a major training base, home to the Central Flying School (Helicopters) and the Search and Rescue flight.

None. The site is a critical, active military training establishment with its infrastructure fully converted for ground vehicle training. There are no known plans, proposals, or prospects for it to be reopened as an airfield, as this would require the relocation of the nationally important Defence School of Transport.