In 1989, 3000 people were employed on the site. On 3 April 2008 BAE Systems announced it would be losing 134 jobs from the Woodford site. On 15 September 2009 BAE announced that the site would close in 2012, with the loss of the final 630 jobs. The site has now been demolished; however, the old Fire station has been re purposed as the Avro Heritage Museum which honours the various Avro aircraft that were built on the site and maintains a collection of artifacts associated with their development.