Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

No 90 (Signals) Group - December 1957

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

 

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 7912 (Misc) Reserve Flight	RAF Bishopbriggs	Functionally controlled by DPS (PM)
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	- 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
RAF Station Digby
No 399 Signals Unit	RAF Digby	Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 7908 Reserve Flight	RAF Digby	Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 591 Signals Unit	RAF Digby
No 7907 Reserve Flight	RAF Digby
Meteorological Communications Centre	Dunstable
Northern Ireland (Dundonald) Signals Centre	RAF Edenmore	Station in Fighter Command
Gloucester Telecommunications Office	RAF Gloucester	Station in Home Command
No 7906 Reserve Flight	RAF Gloucester
South West Signals Centre	Hawthorn
No 7904 Reserve Flight	Hawthorn
North-West Signals Centre	Haydock
No 7902 Reserve Flight	Haydock
Radio Engineering Unit	RAF Henlow	Station in TTC
Radio Standards Centre	RAF Henlow
No 8 (Addu Atoll) Radio Fitting Party	RAF Henlow
Special Signals Unit	RAF Kidbrooke	Station in Home Command
RAF Signals Centre (London)	London (Whitehall Gardens)
No 7905 Reserve Flight	London (Whitehall Gardens)
HQ, No 90 (Signals) Group	RAF Medmenham	Directly responsible to the Air Ministry
Radio Introduction Unit	RAF Medmenham	Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng)
Inspectorate of Radio Services	RAF Medmenham	Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (S))
AM Book Production and Distribution Centre	RAF Medmenham
No 7911 Reserve Flight	RAF Medmenham
RAF Station Medmenham: controlling: -
No 635 Signals Unit (Barkway)	Barkway	GEE Monitor
No 7910 Reserve Flight	Barkway
No 411 Signals Unit (Bullbarrow Hill)	Bullbarrow Hill	GEE Master
No 92 Signals Unit (Clee Hill)	Clee Hill	GEE Slave
No 699 Signals Unit (Daventry)	Daventry	GEE Master
No 561 Signals Unit (Folly)	Folly	GEE Slave
No 796 Signals Unit (Gibbett Hill)	Gibbett Hill	GEE Slave
No 62 Signals Unit (Leuchars)	Leuchars	M/F D/F Station
No 334 Signals Unit (Lympne)	Lympne	M/F D/F Station
No 585 Signals Unit (Oxenhope Moor)	Oxenhope Moor
No 288 Signals Unit (Pendeen)	Pendeen	M/F D/F Station
No 428 Signals Unit (Sennen)	Sennen	GEE Slave
No 899 Signals Unit (Sharpitor)	Sharpitor	GEE Master
No 313 Signals Unit (Sparsholt Firs)	Sparsholt Firs
No 4 Signals Unit (Stenigot)	Stenigot	GEE Slave
No 214 Signals Unit (Stornoway)	Stornoway	M/F D/F Station
No 345 Signals Unit (Swingate)	Swingate	GEE
No 564 Signals Unit (Trerew)	Trerew	GEE Monitor
No 894 Signals Unit (Truleigh Hill)	Truleigh Hill	GEE Slave
No 380 Signals Unit (West Prawle)	West Prawle	GEE Slave
No 200 Signals Unit (Wick)	Wick	M/F D/F Station
No 407 Signals Unit (Worth Matravers)	Worth Matravers	GEE Slave & Monitor
Eastern Signals Centre	Newmarket
No 7909 Reserve Flight	Newmarket
RAF Station Norton
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Norton
RAF Station Pucklechurch
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Pucklechurch
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/Varsity
RAF Station Wythall

Central Signals Area

HQ - Stanbridge

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Deopham Green	Watton
Fersfield	Watton
Grangemouth	Bishopbriggs
Hayscastle Cross	Folly
Hockley Heath	Wythall
Shipdham	Watton
Whalehead (Radar)	Bishopbriggs

Source - SD161 (207th Edition) - December 1957

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

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