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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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Maintenance Command - March 1943
[Command HQ | No 53 Wing | No 54 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 | |
| No 54 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 222 Maintenance Unit | RAF High Ercall | Packing Depot, Station in Fighter 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 |
| No 1 Packed Aircraft Transit Pool | Pleasureland, Southport | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements, Parent station - No 30 MU, Sealand |
| No 76 Maintenance Unit | Wroughton, nr Swindon, Wiltshire | Packing Depot |
HQ - London NW6
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 8 MT Company | Box, Wiltshire | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 2 MT Company | King's College, Cambridge | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 7 MT Company | Cardiff | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 1 MT Company | Mowden Hall, Darlington, Durham | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 6 MT Company | 107 St Vincents Street, Glasgow C1 | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 3 MT Company | Oakenoast, Sevenoaks Road, Igtham, Kent | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 5 MT Company | Parkside, Livingstone Drive, Sefton Place, Liverpool 17 | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
| No 4 MT Company | 20 Langford Place, London NW8 | Operational Control - Deputy Director of Movements |
HQ - RAF Andover. Hampshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 217 Maintenance Unit | Ballymena, Northern Ireland | Equipment Park, Station in RAFNI |
| No 89 Maintenance Unit | Barton Mills | Equipment Park |
| No 68 Maintenance Unit | Bolton | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 74 Maintenance Unit | Ivy House, Bough Beech, West Kent | Equipment Park |
| No 14 Maintenance Unit | RAF Carlisle | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 66 Maintenance Unit | Budby Road, Cuckney, nr Mansfield, Nottinghamshire | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 55 Wing | Derby | |
| 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 | Barrack and Clothing Depot, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 207 Maintenance Unit | East Retford | Equipment Park |
| No 205 Maintenance Unit | Edinburgh | Equipment Park |
| No 208 Maintenance Unit | Golden Grove | Equipment Park |
| No 61 Maintenance Unit | Handforth, Wilmslow, Manchester | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 201 Maintenance Unit | Handforth, Wilmslow, Manchester | Equipment Depot (Overseas Bond) |
| No 229 Maintenance Unit | RAF Harrowbeer | Mobile Equipment Park |
| No 25 Maintenance Unit | Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Worcestershire | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 35 Maintenance Unit | Heywood, Lancashire | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 68 Maintenance Unit | Hindley Green | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 55 Maintenance Unit | Holywood, Northern Ireland | Equipment Park, Station in RAFNI |
| No 79 Maintenance Unit | Lentran House, Inverness | Equipment Park |
| 'F' Maintenance Unit | Robinson Garage, Montague Street, Kettering | MT Reception Depot |
| No 3 Maintenance Unit | Milton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 203 Maintenance Unit | Manners Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire | Equipment Park |
| 'E' Maintenance Unit | Alexandra South Dock, Newport, Monmouthshire | Barrack and Clothing Store |
| 'S' Maintenance Unit | The Ice Stadium, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. | Barrack and Clothing Store |
| No 73 Maintenance Unit | Oakhampton | Equipment Park |
| No 17 Maintenance Unit | Pitfour Castle, Perth | Equipment Park |
| No 7 Maintenance Unit | Quedgeley, Gloucestershire | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 72 Maintenance Unit | Roade, nr Northampton | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 210 Maintenance Unit | Romsey, Essex | Equipment Park |
| No 204 Maintenance Unit | Messer G Selwoods Factory, Harborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire | Equipment Park |
| 'R' Maintenance Unit | Salford | Barrack and Clothing Depot |
| No 69 Maintenance Unit | Sandysyke, Longtown, Cumberland | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 16 Maintenance Unit | Sandon Road, Stafford | Aircraft Equipment Depot |
| No 216 Maintenance Unit | Sutton Coldfield | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 228 Maintenance Unit | RAF Swanton Morley | Mobile Equipment Park |
| 'T' Maintenance Unit | Wakefield | Barrack and Clothing Depot |
| 'A' Maintenance Unit | Palace of Industry, Wembley, Middlesex | Barrack and Clothing Depot |
| No 232 Maintenance Unit | White City | MT Reception Depot |
| No 70 Maintenance Unit | Woodcote, Goring Heath, Reading, Berkshire | Ground Equipment Depot |
| No 87 Maintenance Unit | Ben Johnson's Works, Boroughbridge Road, York | Equipment Park, Station in Army Co-operation Command |
HQ - 81 Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| No 23 Maintenance Unit | RAF Aldergrove | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Coastal Command |
| - | RAF Andover | Miscellaneous Aircraft Supply Centre |
| No 20 Maintenance Unit | RAF Aston Down | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Fighter Command |
| No 6 Maintenance Unit | RAF Brize Norton | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 39 Maintenance Unit | RAF Colerne | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Fighter Command |
| No 9 Maintenance Unit | RAF Cosford | Aircraft Storage Unit and Aircraft Packing Section, station in Technical Training Command |
| No 18 Maintenance Unit | Tinwald Downs, Dumfries | Aircraft Storage Unit and Aircraft Packing Section, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 11 Service Ferry Flight | RAF Dumfries | |
| No 44 Maintenance Unit | Edzell, Brechin, Angus | Aircraft Storage Unit |
| No 15 Ferry Pilots Pool | Air Service Training Ltd Hamble, Hampshire | |
| No 48 Maintenance Unit | RAF Hawarden | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Army Co-operation Command |
| No 3 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Hawarden | |
| No 29 Maintenance Unit | RAF High Ercall | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Fighter Command |
| No 10 Maintenance Unit | RAF Hullavington | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 8 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Hullavington | |
| No 5 Maintenance Unit | RAF Kemble | Aircraft Storage Unit, 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, station in Bomber Command |
| No 12 Maintenance Unit | Kirkbride, Carlisle, Cumberland | Aircraft Storage Unit |
| No 51 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lichfield | Aircraft Storage Unit and Aircraft Packing Section, station in Bomber Command |
| No 8 Maintenance Unit | RAF Little Rissington | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 38 Maintenance Unit | RAF Llandow | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Fighter Command |
| No 46 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lossiemouth | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Bomber Command |
| No 5 Ferry Pilots Pool | Municipal Aerodrome, Luton, Bedfordshire | |
| No 33 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lyneham | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 1427 (Training) Flt | RAF Marham | To train Test Pilots for ASUs, Station in Bomber Command |
| No 1475 (Training) Flt | RAF Pocklington | To train ASU and ATA personnel, Station in Bomber Command |
| No 4 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Prestwick | |
| No 6 Ferry Pilots Pool | Ratcliffe, nr Leicester | |
| No 14 Ferry Pilots Pool | RAF Ringway | Station in Army Co-operation Command |
| No 27 Maintenance Unit | RAF Shawbury | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 22 Maintenance Unit | RAF Silloth | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Coastal Command |
| No 19 Maintenance Unit | RAF St Athan | Aircraft Storage Unit, station in Technical Training Command |
| No 2 Ferry Pilots Pool | Whitchurch, nr Bristol, Somerset | |
| No 1 Ferry Pilots Pool | BOAC, ATA, White Waltham Aerodrome, Maidenhead, Berkshire | |
| RAF Section ATA | White Waltham, Maidenhead, Berkshire | |
| No 15 Maintenance Unit | Wroughton, nr Swindon, Wiltshire | Aircraft Storage Unit, |
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 | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Backford | |
| 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 64 Maintenance Unit (Sub-Unit) | Black Park | Air Ammunition Park |
| 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 |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Brixham | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Bromborough | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Buxton | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Carlisle | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Chichester | |
| No 11 Maintenance Unit | Chilmark, Salisbury, Wiltshire | Reserve 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) | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Dunragit | |
| No 80 Maintenance Unit | Escrik | Forward Ammunition Depot |
| No 96 Maintenance Unit | Eynsham, Oxfordshire | Air 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 | Reserve Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Fawley | |
| No 219 Maintenance Unit | Gisburn, Clitheroe, West Yorkshire | Reserve Ammunition Depot |
| 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 | Reserve Ammunition Depot |
| No 64 Maintenance Unit | Hatfield, Hertfordshire | Air Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Hunsdon |
| 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 224 Maintenance Unit | Kiplin, North Yorkshire | Air Ammunition Depot |
| No 31 Maintenance Unit | Llanberis, nr Carnarvon, North Wales | Reserve Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Llandarcy | |
| No 202 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Long Parish | Ammunition Depot |
| 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 | Air Ammunition Depot, Parent Station - Leuchars |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Micheldever | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Milford Haven | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Misterton | |
| Oil Reserve Depot | Mode Wheel | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Mountnessing | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Much Wenlock | |
| No 36 Maintenance Unit | Newdigate | Air Ammunition Park, Parent Station - Gatwick |
| No 59 Maintenance Unit | Newland, nr Coleford, Gloucestershire | Air Ammunition Park, 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 |
| No 77 Maintenance Unit | Redcastle | Air Ammunition Park |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Redmile | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Rowfant | |
| No 28 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Rowthorne | Ammunition Depot |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Saffron Walden | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Sandy Heath | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | Scapa Bay | |
| No 36 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Snodland, Kent | Air Ammunition Park, parent station - Detling |
| No 91 Maintenance Unit | Southburn, nr Driffield, East Yorkshire | Air Ammunition Depot, parent station - Driffield |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot | South Harefield | |
| 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 Distributing Depot | Torksey | |
| Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot | Upton | |
| No 64 Maintenance Unit (Sub Unit) | Warley | Air Ammunition Park |
| 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 |
| No 78 Maintenance Unit | Pencoed Tinplate Works, Bynea, Llanelly, South Wales | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 84 Maintenance Unit | RAF Calshot | Marine Craft Repair, Station in Coastal Command |
| No 54 Maintenance Unit | Newmarket Road, Cambridge | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 26 Maintenance Unit | RAF Cardington | Balloon Repair Depot, Station in Balloon Command |
| No 63 Maintenance Unit | Carluke, Lanarkshire | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| 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 49 Maintenance Unit | Faygate, nr Horsham, Sussex | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 85 Maintenance Unit | RAF Felixstowe | Marine Craft Repair Unit, Station in Coastal Command |
| No 97 Maintenance Unit | Ferryside | Marine Craft Repair Unit |
| No 13 Maintenance Unit | RAF Henlow | Repair Depot |
| No 56 Maintenance Unit | Strothers Lane, Inverness | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 1 Maintenance Unit | Kidbrooke, London SE3 | Repair Depot |
| No 226 Maintenance Unit | Mallask, County Antrim | Repair and Salvage Unit, station in RAFNI |
| No 88 Maintenance Unit | Meikle Ferry, Tain, Ross-shire | Marine Craft Repair Unit, Parent Station - Tain |
| No 235 Maintenance Unit | RAF Netheravon | Repair and Salvage Unit, station in Army Co-operation Command |
| No 58 Maintenance Unit | Lincoln Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 83 Maintenance Unit | The Airport, Woolsington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 50 Maintenance Unit | Morris Motors Ltd, Cowley, Oxford | Repair and Salvage Unit, Parent Station - No 3 MU Milton |
| No 4 Maintenance Unit | Ruislip, Middlesex | Repair Depot |
| No 30 Maintenance Unit | RAF Sealand | Repair Depot |
| No 34 Maintenance Unit | The Aerodrome, Monkmoor Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire | Salvage Centre |
| No 71 Maintenance Unit | The Premier Garage, Bath Road, Slough | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| 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 |
| No 67 Maintenance Unit | Marshalsea Garage, Wellington Road, Taunton, Somerset | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 24 Maintenance Unit | RAF Ternhill | Service Repair Depot, station in Flying Training Command |
| No 75 Maintenance Unit | Wilmslow, Manchester | Repair and Salvage Unit |
| No 50 Maintenance Unit Sub Unit | Smith's Garage, Wylye nr Warminster, Wiltshire | Salvage 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 - March 1943 SD161
County names used are those in use at the time
[Command HQ | No 53 Wing | No 54 Wing | No 40 Group | No 41 Group | No 42 Group | No 43 Group]
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