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No 90 (Signals) Group - August 1955

[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 Bishopbriggs    
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Bishopbriggs  
HQ, No 1 RAF Police District RAF Bishopbriggs Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 126 Signals Unit Calvo  
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 36 Signals Unit
  • No 219 Signals Unit
  • No 772 Signals Unit
  • No 661 Signals Unit
  • No 224 Signals Unit
 Stoke on Trent
  • Highbridge
  • Kinnaber
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Sutton Valence

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  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
RAF Station Chigwell    
Ground Radio Calibration Unit RAF Chigwell  
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
No 399 Signals Unit RAF Digby Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 591 Signals Unit RAF Digby  
C & M Party RAF Grangemouth  
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
Radio Standards Centre RAF Henlow  
No 6 (Cyprus) Radio Fitting Party RAF Henlow  
Special Signals Unit RAF Kidbrooke Station in Home Command
No 127 Signals Unit Kilchiaran C & M
Radio Introduction Unit RAF Medmenham Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng)
No 212 Signals Unit Murlough Bay C & M
Eastern Signals Centre Newmarket  
RAF Station Norton    
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Norton  
No 130 Signals Unit Prestatyn C & M
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Pucklechurch Station in Home Command
No 991 Signals Unit St Twynnells  
No 91 Signals Unit Saxa Vord C & M
No 437 Signals Unit Trewan Sands GCI
No 71 Signals Unit Uig C & M
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton Lincoln
No 116 Sqn RAF Watton Varsity/Hastings
No 192 Sqn RAF Watton Canberra/Washington
No 527 Sqn RAF Watton Canberra/Meteor/Varsity
No 471 Signals Unit RAF Watton  
No 307 Signals Unit West Myne  
RAF Station Wythall   Includes establishment of RNAW

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
No 81 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands  
No 7903 Reserve Flight RAF Chicksands  
Meteorological Communications Centre Dunstable  
No 810 Signals Unit Edlesborough  
Gloucester Telecommunications Office RAF Gloucester Station in Home Command
No 7906 Reserve Flight RAF Gloucester  
No 962 Signals Unit Greatworth  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorn  
No 7904 Reserve Flight Hawthorn  
North-West Signals Centre Haydock  
No 7902 Reserve Flight Haydock  
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
No 7905 Reserve Flight London (Kingsway)  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge Section of Technical Wing, RAF Stanbridge
No 7901 Reserve Flight RAF Stanbridge  
RAF Bletchley   Satellite, Stanmore
No 593 Signals Unit Stoke Hammond  
No 285 Signals Unit Weyhill  

 

Radio Navigational Aids Wing

HQ - RAF Wythall

Unit Location/Address Function
No 635 Signals Unit Barkway GEE Monitor
No 206 Signals Unit Bircham Newton M/F D/F Station
No 411 Signals Unit Bullbarrow Hill GEE Master
No 92 Signals Unit Clee Hill GEE Slave
No 699 Signals Unit Daventry GEE Master
No 561 Signals Unit Folly GEE Slave
No 796 Signals Unit Gibbett Hill GEE Slave
No 62 Signals Unit Leuchars M/F D/F Station
No 334 Signals Unit Lympne M/F D/F Station
No 288 Signals Unit Pendeen M/F D/F Station
No 428 Signals Unit Sennen GEE Slave
No 899 Signals Unit Sharpitor GEE Master
No 4 Signals Unit Stenigot GEE Slave
No 214 Signals Unit Stornoway M/F D/F Station
No 233 Signals Unit Sumburgh M/F D/F Station
No 564 Signals Unit Trerew GEE Monitor
No 894 Signals Unit Truleigh Hill GEE Slave
No 380 Signals Unit West Prawle GEE Slave
No 200 Signals Unit Wick M/F D/F Station
No 407 Signals Unit Worth Matravers GEE Slave & Monitor

 

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Andover (M/F D/F) Wythall  
Comber (Belfast) (M/F D/F) Wythall  
Deopham Green Watton  
Doncaster Norton  
Fersfield Watton  
Hammersley Hayes Cheadle  
Plympton (M/F D/F) Wythall  
Ponteland (M/F D/F) Wythall  
Shipdham Watton  
Tannoch (Radar) Bishopbriggs  
Thorpe Abbots Watton  
Tibenham Watton  
Whalehead (Radar) Bishopbriggs  

Source - SD161 (179th Edition) - August 1955

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

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