The IX Troop Carrier Command relinquished the airfield back to the RAF in late September and No. 5 Group Bomber Command moved in the distinguished No. 49 Squadron from Fiskerton, an airfield which was transferred to No. 1 Group the following month [REF].
On 2 November the recently formed No. 189 Squadron arrived from Bardney having taken part in its first operation the previous day.