1948

• 1st January, the advance party left Moreton bound for Finningley. Soon to be followed by the remainder of 1 (P) RFU.
  
  
• 2nd January, the transfer of the Unit's aircraft started with the departure of the Oxfords, the Wellington's and Spitfires were used to finish the training schedule before the rest of the unit left.
  
  
• January/ February, for the first time in nearly 7 years a hush fell over RAF Moreton-in-Marsh.
  The Station Commander now became Gp Cpt F.E. Lipscombe.
  The airfield started to be used by the Central Flying School at Little Rissington as a relief landing site for its T3 Mosquito's.
  
  
• 12th February, the first of several Mosquito crashes happened when VT 594 came to grief after a practice overshoot.
  
  
• Spring, the Medical Training Establishment opened under the control of the Technical Training Command.
  
  
• 5th May, HJ991 was destroyed by fire after crashing 2 miles North-West of the Airfield.
  
  
• 4th August, TW116 crash landed and caught fire on the airfield, its wooden construction meaning total loss of the aircraft.
  
  
• 12th August, a Harvard practicing forced landings in the area, undershot the runway and hit the hedges of a boundary road after the engine failed to respond, there were no injuries and the aircraft survived to fly again another day.
  

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