The unit was activated on 12 June 1942 and conducted aircraft ferrying to Europe and other transport operations.

The Red Cross, the only relief organization working on a large scale in remote regions of Somalia, said the Americans had agreed to their longstanding conditions that the military aircraft ferrying Red Cross food would not carry armed men.

The Minneapolis-Edmonton route, however was turned into a transport route only by the end of 1943, with aircraft ferrying operations being shifted to Great Falls.

During the austral summer seasons of 1964 65, and 1966 67, and 1967 68, Mills took station to provide weather information and electronic navigational aid to aircraft ferrying men and equipment between Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

In 1940, No. 4 Service Ferry Pool moved to the station from Cardiff, and Kemble became the headquarters for the aircraft ferrying operations of the Air Transport Auxiliary across the country.

Another reason is the sheer diversity of aircraft ferrying small numbers of people around the country.

A lesser-known part of the aircraft ferrying mission for ATC pilots was search and rescue for Ferrying Command pilots and crews who were forced down in the remote wilderness.

"The major problems concerned with aircraft ferrying had been largely solved," states the official history of the Air Transport Command.

Since November 2001, the night sky over Neu-Isenburg has reverberated with the roar of C-5 Galaxy cargo planes and other aircraft ferrying troops and supplies to Afghanistan.

Also operated an aircraft ferrying route between Brownsville, Texas and the Panama Canal Zone via Mexico and Central America.