Utility Transport Squadron Four (VRU-4), the predecessor to VR-24, was commissioned on 3 December 1946 at RAF Station Hendon, just north of downtown London. At the same time, a VRU-4 Detachment was established at the Naval Air Facility Port Lyautey, French Morocco. On September 1, 1948 VRU-4's designation was changed to Air Transport Squadron Twenty Four (VR-24). On 1 August 1950, the squadron command was transferred to Port Lyautey. Personnel and operations remaining at Hendon became VR-24 Det Hendon. VR-24 Det Hendon was decommissioned June 24, 1952 when VR-25 was established on the field. Information is not presently available on how long VR-25 operated from Hendon or whether VR-24 continued to use the field. However, it is known that the field closed in 1956. VR-24 continued its presence in London in order to provide "rapid-response" air transportation for CINCNELM. Flying into Blackbushe until that field was closed in June 1960, then into West Malling, the squadron maintained a "ready-duty" flight crew in London through August 1960 when the last flight crew was withdrawn.