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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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No 90 (Signals) Group - October 1951
[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]
HQ - Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Directly responsible to the Air Ministry)
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Cheadle
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Stoke on Trent
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Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
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| RAF Station Chigwell | ||
| Radio Engineering Unit (Detachment) | RAF Chigwell | |
| No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Chigwell | |
| No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Chigwell | |
| No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Grangemouth | |
| Radio Engineering Unit | RAF Henlow | Station in TTC |
| HQ, No 70 Wing | RAF Medmenham | |
| No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Pucklechurch | Station in Home Command |
| Central Signals Establishment | RAF Watton | |
| No 192 Sqn | RAF Watton | |
| No 195 Sqn | RAF Watton | |
| RAF Station Wythall |
HQ - Bletchley
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| North-West Signals Centre | RAF Blackbrook | |
| Standby Signals Centre | RAF Chicksands | |
| W/T Station | Dagnall | |
| Meteorological Communications Centre | Dunstable | |
| W/T Station | Greatworth | |
| South West Signals Centre | Hawthorne | |
| RAF Signals Office | London (Kingsway) | |
| RAF Central Signals Centre | RAF Stanbridge | |
| W/T Station | Stoke Hammond | |
| W/T Station (C & M) | Weyhill |
HQ - RAF Welford
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| M/F D/F Station | Acklington | Northumberland |
| M/F D/F Station | Andover | Hampshire |
| GEE Monitor | Barkway | |
| M/F D/F Station | Belfast | |
| M/F D/F Station | Bircham Newton | Norfolk |
| GEE Master | Bullbarrow Hill | Dorset |
| GEE Slave | Clee Hill | Ludlow, Shropshire |
| GEE Master | Daventry | Northamptonshire |
| GEE Slave | Folly | Lincolnshire |
| GEE Slave | Gibbett Hill | Hindhead |
| M/F D/F Station | Leuchars | Fife |
| M/F D/F Station | Lympne | Kent |
| M/F D/F Station | Pendeen | Cornwall |
| M/F D/F Station | Plympton | Devon |
| M/F D/F Station | Sealand | Chester |
| GEE Slave | Sennen | Penzance, Cornwall |
| GEE Master | Sharpitor | Yelverton, Devon |
| GEE Slave | Stenigot | Louth, Lincolnshire |
| M/F D/F Station | Stornoway | Isle of Lewis |
| M/F D/F Station | Sumburgh | Shetland |
| GH Station | Swingate | Dover, Kent |
| M/F D/F Station | Talbenny, | Pembrokeshire |
| GEE Monitor | Trerew | Newquay |
| GEE Slave | Truleigh Hill | Shoreham, Sussex |
| GEE Slave | West Prawle | Devon |
| M/F D/F Station | Wick | Caithness |
| GEE Slave & Monitor | Worth Matravers | Swanage |
Radar Stations being re-equipped
| Location | Function | Administered by |
| Castle Rock | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Danby Beacon | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Douglas Wood | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Drone Hill | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Drytree | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
| Folly | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
| Haycastle Cross | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
| Hillhead | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Netherbutton | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Ripperstone | GCI | RNA Wing |
| Sango | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| School Hill | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Sennen | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
| Staxton Wold | CH (C & M) | Radio Engineering Unit |
| Trelanvean | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
| Treleaver | GCI/CEW and/or CHEL | RNA Wing |
| Trerew | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
| Trewan Sands | GCI | Radio Engineering Unit |
| West Prawle | CH (C & M) | RNA Wing |
No 90 Group, Inactive Stations
| Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
| Clett (Radar) | HQ, No 90 Group | S |
| Deopham Green | Watton | S |
| Fersfield | Watton | S |
| Loth (Radar) | HQ, No 90 Group | S |
| Shipdam | Watton | S |
| South Ronaldsay (Radar) | HQ, No 90 Group | S |
| Tannoch (Radar) | HQ, No 90 Group | S |
| Thorpe Abbots | Watton | S |
| Tibenham | Watton | R |
| Whalehead (Radar) | HQ, No 90 Group | S |
| Watness (Radar) | HQ, No 90 Group | S |
S = Surplus to long-term requirements
R = Retention is currently required
Source - SD161 (133rd Edition) - October 1951
[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]
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