Planned as an RAF bomber station, North Witham was built during 1942-43 and allocated to USAAF Troop Carrier Command (TCC) in August 1943, before construction was complete.



The station had eventually three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings, and two T2 plus six Butler hangars. It was selected to be the home of the 1st Tactical Air Depot, for maintenance and repair of C-47 transports, so the main resident units were the 29th (originally 85th) and 33rd Air Depot Groups from January to September 1944.



The station was also occupied from March to September 1944 by the IX TCC Pathfinder School, which operated C-47s fitted with special navigation and radar equipment. In September 1944 the Air Depot title was changed to IX Troop Carrier Service Wing (Provisional), but C-47 maintenance and repair work continued as before, albeit on a reducing scale, until April 1945.



Handed over to the RAF in June 1945, the station was used mainly for bomb storage until closed in 1948. Inactive until 1956, the site was sold in 1960 and the airfield has since become covered with new trees, planted as Twyford Wood by the Forestry Commission.



The former technical site has been developed as an industrial estate. Parts of the runways and hardstandings still remain, along with the Control Tower in derelict condition plus a few other wartime buildings.