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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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Maintenance Command - June 1942
[Command HQ | No 53 Wing | No 40 Group | No 41 Group | No 42 Group | No 43 Group]
Command HQ - Andover, Hampshire
Units administered directly by Maintenance Command HQ
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 53 Wing | see below |
HQ - 81 Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 52 Maintenance Unit | RAF Cardiff | Packing Depot, Station in Army Co-op Command |
| No 215 Maintenance Unit | RAF Dumfries | Packing Depot, Station in Flying Training Command |
| No 82 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lichfield | Packing Depot, Station in No 91 Group, Bomber Command |
| No 3 Packed Aircraft Transit Pool | Newhouse by Motherwell, Lanarkshire | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 47 Maintenance Unit | RAF Sealand | Packing Depot, Station in Flying Training Command |
| No 1 Packed Aircraft Transit Pool | Pleasureland, Southport | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements, Accounting station - No 30 MU, Sealand |
| No 76 Maintenance Unit | Wroughton, nr Swindon, Wiltshire | Packing Depot |
(a) Station the operational control of No 43 Group
(c)
HQ - RAF Andover. Hampshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 217 Maintenance Unit | Ballymena, Northern Ireland | Forward Holding Unit |
| No 74 Maintenance Unit | Ivy House, Bough Beech, West Kent | Forward Holding Unit |
| No 2 MT Company | King's College, Cambridge | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 14 Maintenance Unit | RAF Carlisle | Equipment Depot |
| No 66 Maintenance Unit | Budby Road, Cuckney, nr Mansfield, Nottinghamshire | Equipment Dispersal Depot |
| No 1 MT Company | Mowden Hall, Darlington, Durham | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 99 Maintenance Unit | Curzon Lane, Alvaston, Derby | MT Reception Depot |
| No 62 Maintenance Unit | MacAllister's Yard, Sand Point, Dumbarton. | Marine Craft Storage |
| 'H' Maintenance Unit | Heath Hall Works, Dumfries | Equipment Depot, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 6 MT Company | 107 St Vincents Street, Glasgow C1 | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| 'R' Maintenance Unit | RAF Glossop | Equipment Depot |
| No 61 Maintenance Unit | Handforth, Wilmslow, Manchester | Equipment Depot |
| No 25 Maintenance Unit | Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Worcestershire | Equipment Depot |
| No 35 Maintenance Unit | Heywood, Lancashire | Equipment Depot |
| No 55 Maintenance Unit | Holywood, Northern Ireland | Forward Holding Unit |
| No 7 MT Company | Hull | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 3 MT Company | Oakenoast, Sevenoaks Road, Igtham, Kent | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 79 Maintenance Unit | Lentran House, Inverness | Forward Holding Unit |
| 'F' Maintenance Unit | Robinson Garage, Montague Street, Kettering | MT Reception Depot |
| No 5 MT Company | Parkside, Livingstone Drive, Sefton Place, Liverpool 17 | Dock Clearance, Merseyside Area |
| No 4 MT Company | 20 Langford Place, London NW8 | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 3 Maintenance Unit | Milton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire | Equipment Depot |
| No 203 Maintenance Unit | Manners Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire | Forward Holding Unit |
| 'E' Maintenance Unit | Alexandra South Dock, Newport, Monmouthshire | Equipment Depot |
| 'S' Maintenance Unit | The Ice Stadium, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. | Equipment Depot |
| No 17 Maintenance Unit | Pitfour Castle, Perth | Forward Holding Unit |
| No 201 Maintenance Unit | Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire | Equipment Depot |
| No 7 Maintenance Unit | Quedgeley, Gloucestershire | Equipment Depot |
| No 72 Maintenance Unit | Roade, nr Northampton | Equipment Dispersal Depot |
| No 204 Maintenance Unit | Messer G Selwoods Factory, Harborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire | Forward Holding Unit |
| No 69 Maintenance Unit | Sandysyke, Longtown, Cumberland | Equipment Dispersal Depot |
| No 16 Maintenance Unit | Sandon Road, Stafford | Equipment Depot |
| 'A' Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Palace of Industry, Wembley, Middlesex | Equipment Depot (Under 'B' MU for administration) |
| No 70 Maintenance Unit | Woodcote, Goring Heath, Reading, Berkshire | Equipment Dispersal Depot |
| No 87 Maintenance Unit | Ben Johnson's Works, Boroughbridge Road, York | Forward Holding Unit |
HQ - 81 Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 23 Maintenance Unit | RAF Aldergrove | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 50 Wing, station in Coastal Command |
| No 20 Maintenance Unit | RAF Aston Down | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Fighter Command |
| No 6 Maintenance Unit | RAF Brize Norton | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 51 Wing | Broughton Hall, Broughton, Cheshire | |
| No 37 Maintenance Unit | Barrow Hill Lanes, Great Sankey, Warrington (Burtonwood) | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 51 Wing |
| No 39 Maintenance Unit | RAF Colerne | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Fighter Command |
| No 9 Maintenance Unit | RAF Cosford | Aircraft Storage Unit and Aircraft Packing Section, controlled by No 51 Wing, station in Technical Training Command |
| No 52 Wing | Dowdeswell Court, Dowdeswell, Cheltenham | |
| No 18 Maintenance Unit | Tinwald Downs, Dumfries | Aircraft Storage Unit and Aircraft Packing Section, controlled by No 50 Wing, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 44 Maintenance Unit | Edzell, Brechin, Angus | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 50 Wing |
| No 15 Ferry Pilots Pool | Air Service Training Ltd Hamble, Hampshire | |
| No 48 Maintenance Unit | RAF Hawarden | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 51 Wing, station in Fighter Command |
| No 3 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Hawarden | |
| No 29 Maintenance Unit | RAF High Ercall | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 51 Wing, station in Fighter Command |
| No 10 Maintenance Unit | RAF Hullavington | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 8 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Hullavington | |
| No 5 Maintenance Unit | RAF Kemble | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in No 44 Group |
| HQ Service Ferry Pool | RAF Kemble | |
| No 10 Ferry Pilots Pool | Kington Langley | |
| No 45 Maintenance Unit | RAF Kinloss | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 50 Wing, station in Bomber Command |
| No 12 Maintenance Unit | Kirkbride, Carlisle, Cumberland | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 50 Wing |
| No 51 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lichfield | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 51 Wing, station in Bomber Command |
| No 8 Maintenance Unit | RAF Little Rissington | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 38 Maintenance Unit | RAF Llandow | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Fighter Command |
| No 46 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lossiemouth | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 50 Wing, station in Bomber Command |
| No 5 Ferry Pilots Pool | Municipal Aerodrome, Luton, Bedfordshire | Station in Flying Training Command |
| No 33 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lyneham | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 4 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Prestwick | |
| No 6 Ferry Pilots Pool | Ratcliffe, nr Leicester | |
| No 14 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Ringway | Parent Station - Hawarden |
| No 27 Maintenance Unit | RAF Shawbury | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 51 Wing, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 22 Maintenance Unit | RAF Silloth | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 50 Wing, station in Coastal Command |
| No 19 Maintenance Unit | RAF St Athan | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing, station in Technical Training Command |
| No 1427 (Training) Flt | RAF Thruxton | Station in Army Co-operation Command |
| No 50 Wing | Geltsdale, Wetheral, Carlisle, Cumberland | |
| No 2 Ferry Pilots Pool | Whitchurch, nr Bristol, Somerset | |
| No 1 Ferry Pilots Pool | BOAC, ATA, White Waltham Aerodrome, Maidenhaed, Berkshire | |
| Accounting Section (Equipment) | White Waltham, Maidenhaed, Berkshire | |
| No 15 Maintenance Unit | Wroughton, nr Swindon, Wiltshire | Aircraft Storage Unit, controlled by No 52 Wing |
HQ - Burghfield Common, Nr Reading, Surrey
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 2 Maintenance Unit | Broadheath, Altrincham, Cheshire | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Ardrossan | |
| Tinning Factory | Ardrossan | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Avonmouth | |
| No 94 Maintenance Unit | Barnham, Thetford, Norfolk | Forward Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Barrow | |
| Oil Reserve Depot | Barton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Beeston Castle | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Belfast | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Bilton | |
| Oil Reserve Depot | Birkenhead | |
| No 81 Maintenance Unit | Bowes Moor, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Bowling | |
| No 92 Maintenance Unit | Brafferton, Helperby, North Yorkshire | Forward Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Dishforth |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Brampton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Brixham | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Buxton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Chichester | |
| No 11 Maintenance Unit | Chilmark, Salisbury, Wiltshire | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Claydon | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Crawley Crossing | |
| No 11 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Dinton | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Dovehole (Buxton) | |
| No 96 Maintenance Unit | Eynsham, Oxfordshire | Forward Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Falmouth | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Fareham | |
| No 21 Maintenance Unit | Fauld, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire | Ammunition Depot |
| No 219 Maintenance Unit | Gisburn, Clitheroe, West Yorkshire | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Gloucester | |
| No 21 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Grange Quarry, Holywell, Flintshire | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Grangemouth | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Hallen | |
| No 28 Maintenance Unit | Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Heysham | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Distributing Depot | Hoy | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Inverness | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Islip | |
| No 31 Maintenance Unit | Llanberis, nr Carnarvon, North Wales | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Llandarcy | |
| No 95 Maintenance Unit | Lords Bridge, Cambridge | Forward Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Bassingbourn |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Massingham | |
| No 98 Maintenance Unit | Mawcarse, nr Milnathort, Kinross | Forward Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Leuchars |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Micheldever | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Milford Haven | |
| Oil Reserve Depot | Mode Wheel | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Mountnessing | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Much Wenlock | |
| No 59 Maintenance Unit | Newland, nr Coleford, Gloucestershire | Forward Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Hereford |
| No 93 Maintenance Unit | Norton Disney, Lincolnshire | Forward Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Swinderby |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Peterborough | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Plymouth | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Poole | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Preston | |
| No 53 Maintenance Unit | Pulham, Norfolk | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Redmile | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Rowfant | |
| No 28 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Rowthorne | Ammunition Depot |
| No 64 Maintenance Unit | Ruislip, Middlesex | Forward Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Saffron Walden | Parent Station - Detling |
| No 36 Maintenance Unit | Snodland, Kent | |
| No 91 Maintenance Unit | Southburn, nr Driffield, East Yorkshire | Forward Ammunition Depot |
| No 100 Maintenance Unit | South Witham, nr Grantham, Lincolnshire | Forward Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Stanlow | |
| Tinning Factory | Stanlow | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Stourport | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Sullom Voe | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Sumburgh | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Thetford | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Thornaby | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Thornton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Upton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Watton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Wervin | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Wilton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Wye |
HQ - Magdalen College, Oxford
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 65 Maintenance Unit | Blaby Wharf, Blaby, nr Leicester | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Waddington |
| No 78 Maintenance Unit | Pencoed Tinplate Works, Bynea, Llanelly, South Wales | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - St Athan |
| No 84 Maintenance Unit | RAF Calshot | Marine Craft Repair, Station in Coastal Command |
| No 54 Maintenance Unit | Newmarket Road, Cambridge | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Henlow |
| No 26 Maintenance Unit | RAF Cardington | Balloon Repair Depot, Station in Balloon Command |
| No 63 Maintenance Unit | Carluke, Lanarkshire | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Abbotsinch |
| No 218 Maintenance Unit | RAF Colerne | Aircraft Erection Unit, Parent Station - Fighter Command |
| No 213 Maintenance Unit | MacAllister's Yard, Sand Point, Dumbarton. | Marine Craft Repair Unit - Parent Station - No 62 MU |
| No 85 Maintenance Unit | RAF Felixstowe | Marine Craft Repair, Station in Coastal Command |
| RAF Station Henlow | Henlow, Bedfordshire | |
| No 13 Maintenance Unit | RAF Henlow | Repair Depot |
| No 49 Maintenance Unit | Faygate, nr Horsham, Sussex | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Horsham |
| No 56 Maintenance Unit | Strothers Lane, Inverness | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - HQ No 14 Group |
| No 1 Maintenance Unit | Kidbrooke, London SE3 | Repair Depot |
| No 11 Repair and Salvage Centre | Mallask, County Antrim | Salvage Centre |
| No 88 Maintenance Unit | Meikle Ferry, Tain, Ross-shire | Marine Craft Repair Unit, Parent Station - Evanton |
| No 58 Maintenance Unit | Lincoln Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Waddington |
| No 83 Maintenance Unit | The Airport, Woolsington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Usworth |
| No 50 Maintenance Unit | Morris Motors Ltd, Cowley, Oxford | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Abingdon |
| No 4 Maintenance Unit | Ruislip, Middlesex | Repair Depot |
| RAF Station Sealand | Sealand, Queen's Ferry, Chester. | |
| No 30 Maintenance Unit | RAF Sealand | Repair Depot |
| No 34 Maintenance Unit | The Aerodrome, Monkmoor Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire | Salvage Centre, Parent Station - Shawbury |
| No 71 Maintenance Unit | The Premier Garage, Bath Road, Slough | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - No 4 MU Ruislip |
| No 32 Maintenance Unit | RAF St Athan | Repair Depot, Station in Technical Training Command |
| No 86 Maintenance Unit | Combe Bank Market Garden, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - No 1 MU Kidbrooke |
| No 67 Maintenance Unit | Marshalsea Garage, Wellington Road, Taunton, Somerset | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Exeter |
| No 24 Maintenance Unit | RAF Ternhill | Service Repair Depot |
| No 75 Maintenance Unit | Wilmslow, Manchester | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 90 Maintenance Unit | Smith's Garage, Wylye nr Warminster, Wiltshire | Salvage Sub-Centre, Parent Station - No 50 MU Oxford |
| No 60 Maintenance Unit | Shipton-by-Beningborough, North Yorkshire | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - Linton-on-Ouse |
Source - June 1942 SD161
County names used are those in use at the time
[Command HQ | No 53 Wing | No 40 Group | No 41 Group | No 42 Group | No 43 Group]
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