It used to be one (of two?) RAF airfields that could lay a foam strip for aircraft with undercarriage problems to land on. ISTR that (for a helicopter) a GCA onto the westerly runway (29?) had the UK's, if not the world's lowest BOH on a PAR - 50 feet on QFE!
And
some at least of the Customs men were very friendly to westbound Wessex full of duty-free.......
I think by the 70s there was only the SAR Flight there. IIRC it was the first location (in the UK) to operate the Wessex in the SAR role.......
Edited to add: I should say the first
RAF Wessex on SAR in UK before RN or Bristows veterans complain.
