 The airfield was used after the war for a short time for prisoners of war and then for displaced persons.Early in 1952 it was taken over by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) to become a supply station for the Canadian NATO squadrons.The airfield was constructed on the old domestic and technical sites with completely new buildings, to a much higher standard than the Air Ministry was used to, by an English design team led by architect Peter Benton, under the direction of an RCAF officer.