Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Bomber Command - January 1953

[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
Bomber Command Communication Flight	Booker	Station in Home Command

No 1 (Bomber) Group

HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
RAF Station Bassingbourn
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit	RAF Bassingbourn	Canberra/Meteor
RAF Station Binbrook
No 9 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 12 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 50/103 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 101 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 617 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
Bomber Command Acceptance and Modification Unit	RAF Binbrook
No 1 Group Communications Flight	RAF Finningley	Station in FTC
RAF Station Hemswell
No 83/150 Sqn	RAF Hemswell	Lincoln B2
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn	RAF Hemswell	Lincoln B2
No 109/105 Sqn	RAF Hemswell	Canberra
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn	RAF Hemswell	Canberra
No 199 Sqn	RAF Hemswell	Lincoln/Mosquito
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight	RAF Hemswell	Meteor
No 112 Signals Unit	High Street, Darsham	GH, station in Fighter Command
Bomber Command Bombing School	RAF Lindholme	Lincoln B2
RAF Station Scampton
RAF Station Waddington
No 49/102 Sqn	RAF Waddington	Lincoln B2
No 61/144 Sqn	RAF Waddington	Lincoln B2
No 100 Sqn	RAF Waddington	Lincoln B2
No 459 Signals Unit	RAF Wythall	GH, station in No 90 Group

No 3 Group

HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
RAF Station Benson	Benson, Oxfordshire
No 58 Sqn	RAF Benson	Mosquito PR 34
No 82 Sqn	RAF Benson	Lancaster PR 1/Dakota
No 540 Sqn	RAF Benson	Canberra PR 3
RAF Station Brize Norton		Administered by USAF
No 388 Signals Unit	RAF Church Lawford	MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Coningsby
No 15/21 Sqn	RAF Coningsby	Washington B1
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn	RAF Coningsby	Washington B1
No 57/104 Sqn	RAF Waddington	Washington B1
No 149 Sqn	RAF Coningsby	Washington B1
No 53 Signals Unit	RAF Coningsby	MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Fairford		Administered by USAF
RAF Station Greenham Common		Administered by USAF
RAF Station Lakenheath		Administered by USAF
RAF Station Marham
No 35 Sqn	RAF Marham	Washington B1
No 90 Sqn	RAF Marham	Washington B1
No 115/218 Sqn	RAF Marham	Washington B1
No 207 Sqn	RAF Marham	Washington B1
Washington Conversion Unit	RAF Marham
RAF Station Mildenhall
No 3 Group Communications Flight	RAF Mildenhall	Anson/Proctor
RAF Wordwell		Satellite, Mildenhall, allocated to USAF
RAF Station Molesworth		Administered by USAF
Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK)	RAF Nuneham Park	Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I))
RAF Station Sculthorpe		Administered by USAF
RAF Station Upper Heyford		Administered by USAF
RAF Station Upwood
No 7/76 Sqn	RAF Upwood	Lincoln B2
No 148 Sqn	RAF Upwood	Lincoln B2
No 214 Sqn	RAF Upwood	Lincoln B2
Radar Reconnaissance Flight	RAF Upwood	Lincoln
RAF Station Wimpole Park		Administered by USAF
RAF Station Wittering
RAF Station Wyton

Bomber Command, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Abbots Ripton	Wyton	S
Barford St John	Upper Heyford	S
Chalgrove	Benson	S
Croughton	Upper Heyford	R
Desborough	Marham	R
Downham Market	Marham	S
Fiskerton	Scampton	S
Glatton	Upwood	S
Gransden Lodge	Bassingbourn	R
Kelstern	Binbrook	S
Kimbolton	Wyton	S
Mepal	Upwood	S
Metheringham	Waddington	R
Middleton Stoney	Upper Heyford	R
Newmarket	Mildenhall	S
Polebrook	Upwood	R
Spilsby	Coningsby	R
Steeple Morden	Bassingbourn	R
Sutton Bridge	Marham	R
Warboys	Upwood	S
Witchford	Wyton	S

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (148th Edition) - January 1953

County names used are those in use at the time

[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

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