The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was a familiar sight at Chelveston as wings deployed on 90-day rotations. Two of the SAC B-47 Wings which deployed to Chelveston were the 301st Bombardment Wing from Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, and the 305th Bombardment Wing from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, direct descendants of the two World War II B-17 Bombardment groups assigned to the airfield. In 1958 the church of St James in Thrapston received the pews which had previously been installed in the Chelveston chapel.