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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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| Unit | Location | Notes |
| India | ||
| RAF Station Allahabad | ||
| No 95 Air Stores Park | Allahabad | |
| RAF Station Ambala | ||
| No 1 School of Technical Training | RAF Ambala | |
| No 1 Service Flying Training School | RAF Ambala | |
| No 303 Maintenance Unit | RAF Ambala | |
| Central Map Section | RAF Ambala | |
| Base Accounts Office | RAF Ambala | |
| Followers' Reception Centre | RAF Ambala | |
| Central Trade Test Board | RAF Ambala | |
| No 293 Wing | Alipore | |
| No 67 Sqn | Alipore | Hurricane |
| No 146 Sqn | Alipore | Hurricane |
| Care & Maintenance Party | Alipore | |
| Care & Maintenance Party | Armarda Road | |
| Reserve Aircraft Pool (Fighter) | Armarda Road | |
| No 177 Sqn | Armarda Road | Beaufighter (Coastal) |
| No 283 AMES | Amghata | |
| No 288 AMES | Amghata | |
| RAF Liaison Section | Agra | |
| Indian ATC | Aligarh University | |
| Wireless Operators' School | Andheri | |
| General Reconnaissance/Air Naval School | Andheri | |
| No 17 Sqn | Angel (Calcutta) | Hurricane |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Arkonam | |
| No 11 Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) | Arkonam | |
| No 127 Repair and Salvage Unit | Arkonam | |
| No 88 Air Stores Park | Arkonam | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Amadabad | |
| No 168 Wing | RAF Asansol | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | RAF Asansol | |
| Forward Repair Depot | RAF Asansol | |
| Reserve Aircraft Pool (Bomber) | RAF Asansol | |
| No 169 Wing | Agartala | |
| No 3 Refuelling and Re-arming Party | Agartala | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Agartala | |
| No 5 Sqn | Agartala | Mohawk |
| No 27 Sqn | Agartala | Beaufighter |
| No 219 AMES | Bankura | |
| No 319 AMES | Bankura | |
| Explosive Storage Section | Babugarh | |
| No 567 AMES | Basirhat | |
| No 39 Wireless Unit | Barisal | |
| No 40 Wireless Unit | Barisal | |
| AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| Communication Flight | Barrackpore | |
| No 2 Refuelling and Re-arming Party c/o AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| No 4 Refuelling and Re-arming Party c/o AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| No 7 Refuelling and Re-arming Party c/o AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| No 10 Refuelling and Re-arming Party c/o AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| No 11 Refuelling and Re-arming Party c/o AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| No 12 Refuelling and Re-arming Party c/o AHQ Bengal | Barrackpore | |
| Air Observers' Air Gunners' School | Baroda | |
| No 227 Group | Bombay | |
| Base Personnel Office | Bombay | |
| No 51 Embarkation Unit | Bombay | |
| RI and MU | Bombay | |
| No 289 AMES | Bombay | |
| RAF Naval Liaison Section | Bombay | |
| Air Transit Section | Bombay | |
| No 984 (Balloon) Sqn | Bombay | Mk VI Balloons, also shown at Digboi |
| Rover Flight, No 979 (Balloon) Sqn | Bombay | Mk VI Balloons |
| No 1 Signals School | Bombay | |
| No 305 Maintenance Unit | Bombay | |
| RAF Base HQ | Bombay | |
| SS 'Shenking' | Bombay | |
| Combined Training Centre | Bombay | |
| Armament Training Unit | Bairagarh (Bhopal) | |
| Reinforcement Staging Post | Bairagarh (Bhopal) | |
| No 6 Sqn IAF | Bairagarh (Bhopal) | Hurricane |
| No 590 AMES | Balasore | |
| No 1 Elementary Flying Training School | Begumpet | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Baigachi | |
| No 176 Sqn | Baigachi | Beaufighter |
| No 261 Sqn | Baigachi | Hurricane |
| No 35 Personnel Transit Centre | Ballygunge | |
| No 225 Group | Bangalore | |
| MT Storage Unit | Bangalore | |
| No 7 Wireless Unit | Bangalore | |
| Calibration Flight | Bangalore | |
| Air Transit Section | Bangalore | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Bangalore | |
| No 357 Wireless Unit | Bangalore | |
| No 23 Air Support Control | Bangalore | |
| No 308 Maintenance Unit | Bamrauli | |
| No 224 AMES | Bhadrack | |
| No 224 Group | Chittagong | |
| No 6 Refuelling and Re-arming Party | Chittagong | |
| No 676 AMES | Chittagong | |
| No 37 Wireless Unit | Chittagong | |
| Nos 680 - 685 AMES c/o 224 Group | Chittagong | |
| Nos 641 - 646 AMES c/o 224 Group | Chittagong | |
| Rover Flight, No 978 (Balloon) Sqn | Chittagong | Mk VI Balloons |
| No 21 Sector Operations Room | Chittagong | |
| No 166 Wing | Chittagong | |
| No 607 Sqn | Chittagong | Hurricane |
| No 136 Sqn | Chittagong | Hurricane |
| No 4 Wireless Unit | Chittagong | |
| No 859 AMES | Chittagong | |
| Repair & Salvage Unit | Chittagong | |
| Equipment Park | Chundpur | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Chettinad | |
| Civilian Repair Organisation | Cawnpore | |
| No 20 Sqn | Charra | Lysander |
| No 1 Sqn IAF | Charra | Hurricane |
| No 54 Embarkation Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 274 (Balloon) Wing | Calcutta | |
| No 978 (Balloon) Sqn | Calcutta | |
| No 23 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 355 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| Calibration Flight | Calcutta | |
| No 2 RAF Postal Centre | Calcutta | |
| Civil Repair Organisation | Calcutta | |
| No 3 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 8 Heavy Mobile W/T Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 221 Group | Calcutta | |
| No 226 ASR Unit | Calcutta | |
| Calcutta Co-operation Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 10 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 5 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| Controllers Training Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 11 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 12 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| No 19 Wireless Unit | Calcutta | |
| MT Base Pool | Calcutta | |
| Maintenance Wing | Calcutta | |
| RAF Base HQs | Calcutta | |
| No 863 AMES | Calcutta | |
| Forward Repair Depot | Calcutta | |
| Equipment Park | Calcutta | |
| No 4 Hill Depot | Chakrata | |
| Technical and Disciplinary School | Chakrata | |
| No 113 Sqn | Chadina | Blenheim IV |
| No 215 Sqn | Chakala | Wellington |
| Air Landing School | Chakala | |
| No 373 AMES | Char Chapli | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Cholavaram | |
| No 45 Sqn | Cholavaram | No aircraft |
| No 84 Sqn | Cholavaram | Vengeance |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Cochin | |
| No 6 Hill Station | Cochin | |
| Flying Boat Base | Cocanada | |
| No 1 Refuelling and Re-arming Party | Cox's Bazaar | |
| No 5042 AMES | Cox's Bazaar | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Cuttack | |
| No 12 Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) | Cuttack | |
| No 6 Wireless Unit | Cuttack | |
| No 3 Repair and Salvage Section | Cuttack | |
| Equipment Park | Cuttack | |
| No 544 AMES | Diamond Harbour | |
| No 353 Sqn | Dhubalia | Hudson |
| No 99 Sqn | Digri | Wellington |
| No 60 Sqn | Dohazari | Blenheim IV |
| No 851 AMES | Deganga | |
| RAF Station Delhi | ||
| Air Transit Section | RAF Delhi | |
| No 1 Central Medical Board | RAF Delhi | |
| Parachute Repair Section | RAF Delhi | |
| No 164 Signals Wing | RAF Delhi | |
| No 359 Wireless Unit | RAF Delhi | |
| No 369 Wireless Unit | RAF Delhi | |
| Transit Camp | Dehra Dun | |
| No 984 (Balloon) Sqn | Digboi | Mk VI Balloons, also shown at Bombay |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Dum Dum | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Dum Dum | |
| No 681 Sqn | Dum Dum | Spitfire/B-25 |
| Reserve Aircraft Pool (Fighter) | Dum Dum | |
| RAF Liaison | Dinjan | |
| No 5019 AMES | Edappalli | |
| No 543 AMES | Egra | |
| No 248 AMES | Egra | |
| No 312 AMES | Ernakulam (Cochin) | |
| No 247 AMES | Elliotganj | |
| No 376 AMES | Fazilpur | |
| No 5 Refuelling and Re-arming Party | Fenny | |
| No 877 Wing | Fenny | |
| No 615 Sqn | Fenny | Hurricane |
| No 167 Wing | Fenny | |
| No 11 Sqn | Fenny | Blenheim |
| No 8514 AMES | Gopalpur | |
| No 291 AMES | Grubb's Island | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Hakimpet | |
| No 869 AMES | Hathripara | |
| No 857 AMES | Imphal | |
| No 155 Sqn | Imphal | Mohawk |
| Communication Flight | Jakkar (Bangalore) | |
| No 281 AMES | Jagatsingpur | |
| No 679 AMES | Jaynagar | |
| RAF Station Jodphur | ||
| No 2 Elementary Flying Training School | RAF Jodhpur | |
| No 319 Maintenance Unit | RAF Jodhpur | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | RAF Jodhpur | |
| No 853 AMES | Jessore | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Jessore | |
| No 4 Repair and Salvage Section | Jessore | |
| 175 Wing | Jessore | |
| No 62 Sqn | Jessore | Hudson |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Jiwani (Baluchistan) | |
| Calibration Flt | Juhu (Bombay) | |
| AA Co-operation Flt | Juhu (Bombay) | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Juhu (Bombay) | |
| No 301 Maintenance Unit | Karachi | |
| Air Reinforcement Centre | Karachi | |
| No 29 Personnel Reception Centre | Karachi | |
| No 22 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit | Karachi | |
| No 3 Postal Centre | Karachi | |
| No 57 Embarkation Unit | Karachi | |
| No 212 Sqn | Karachi | Catalina |
| Air Transit Section | Karachi | |
| SS 'Dumana' | Karachi | |
| No 320 Maintenance Unit (Aircraft Repair Depot) | Karachi | |
| No 179 Wing | Karachi | |
| Flying Boat Base | Karachi | |
| RAF Base HQs | Karachi | |
| No 26 Wireless Unit | Karaghpur | |
| Equipment Park | Karaghpur | |
| No 313 Maintenance Unit | Kankinara | |
| Equipment Park (Reserve) | Kankinara | |
| RAF Station Kohat | ||
| No 4 Sqn IAF | RAF Kohat | Lysander |
| No 3 Sqn IAF | RAF Kohat | Audax |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Kayattar | |
| No 211 AMES | Khulna | |
| RAF Station Kanchrapara | ||
| MT Storage Unit | RAF Kanchrapara | |
| No 86 Air Stores Park | Lohegoan | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Lake Ballandur | |
| RAF Station Lahore | ||
| Initial Training Centre | RAF Lahore | |
| No 307 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lahore | |
| No 306 Maintenance Unit | RAF Lahore | |
| W/T Installation and Fitting Party | RAF Lahore | |
| Travelling Medical Board | RAF Lahore | |
| No 1 Hill Depot | Lower Topa | |
| Fire Fighting School | Lower Topa | |
| School of Administration and Discipline | Lower Topa | |
| No 554 AMES | Malabar | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Madura | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Madhaighanja | |
| No 110 Sqn | Madhaighanja | Vengeance |
| No 82 Sqn | Madhaighanja | Vengeance |
| No 135 Sqn | Madhaighanja | Hurricane, also shown at Ramu |
| No 885 AMES | Manipur Road | |
| No 172 Wing | Madras | |
| No 293 AMES | Madras | |
| Air Transit Section | Madras | |
| No 9 Wireless Unit | Madras | |
| No 259 AMES | Mathurapur | |
| No 848 AMES | Mathurapur | |
| No 568 AMES | Mancharpur | |
| No 302 Maintenance Unit | Manauri | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Miranshah | |
| No 4 Sqn IAF - Detachment | Miranshah | Lysander |
| No 574 AMES | Navalpur | |
| No 370 AMES | Negapatam | |
| AHQ India | New Delhi | |
| AHQ Communications Unit | New Delhi | |
| Air Publications and Forms Store | New Delhi | |
| RAF Dental Services | New Delhi | |
| RAF Chaplain's Branch | New Delhi | |
| No 225 AMES | Nellore | |
| No 884 AMES | Noya | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Nagpur | |
| No 864 AMES | Noa Hat | |
| No 228 AMES | Ongole | |
| No 226 (Maintenance) Group | Palam (Delhi) | |
| No 31 Sqn | Palam (Delhi) | DC2/DC3 |
| No 194 Sqn | Palam (Delhi) | Hudson |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Pandaveswar | |
| No 284 AMES | Pagdalapata | |
| No 542 AMES | Pallavaram | |
| No 7 Sqn IAF | Pharpamau | Vengeance |
| No 678 AMES | Port Canning | |
| No 268 AMES | Pondicherry | |
| No 2 Central Medical Board | Poona | |
| Communication Flight | Peshawar | |
| No 152 Operational Training Unit | Peshawar | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Quetta | |
| No 171 Wing | Ranchi | |
| No 22 Air Support Control | Ranchi | |
| No 28 Sqn | Ranchi | Hurricane |
| No 2 Sqn IAF | Ranchi | Lysander |
| No 240 Sqn | Red Hills Lake | Catalina |
| No 223 Group | Rawalpindi | |
| No 165 Wing | Ramu | |
| No 79 Sqn | Ramu | Hurricane |
| No 135 Sqn | Ramu | Hurricane, also shown at Madhaighanja |
| No 151 Operational Training Unit | Risalpur | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | St Thomas Mount | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | St Thomas Mount | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Salbini | |
| No 159 Sqn | Salbini | Liberator |
| No 170 Wing | Salbini | Also shown at Silchar |
| No 2 Repair and Salvage Section | Salbini | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Santa Cruz | |
| RAF Station Secunderabad | ||
| RAF Regiment Training Centre | Secunderabad | Lysander |
| No 3 Civil School (Technical) Training | Sidpur | |
| No 3 Hill Depot | Shillong | |
| No 870 AMES | Silchar | |
| No 2 Wireless Unit | Silchar | |
| No 170 Wing | Silchar | Also shown at Salbini |
| No 34 Sqn | Silchar | Blenheim |
| No 2 Hill Depot | Solan | |
| Code & Cypher School | Solan | |
| Equipment School | Solan | |
| No 5 Sqn - Detachment | Tezpur | |
| Reinforcement Staging Party | Tezpur | |
| No 173 Wing | Trichinopoly | |
| No 121 Repair and Salvage Unit | Trichinopoly | |
| No 8 Sqn IAF | Trichinopoly | Vengeance - Forming |
| Civil Repair Organisation | Trichinopoly | |
| No 36 Sqn | Tanjore | Non-operational |
| No 8 Wireless Unit | Tanjore | |
| No 5028 AMES | Tada | |
| Refuelling and Re-arming Party | Ulunderpet | |
| Care and Maintenance Party | Vizagapatam | |
| No 2000 AMES | Waltair | |
| No 42 Sqn | Yelahanka | Blenheim V |
| Ceylon | ||
| No 272 AMES | Batticaloa | |
| No 5009 AMES | Chapel Hill | |
| RAF Station China Bay | ||
| No 321 Sqn | RAF China Bay | Catalina |
| No 990 Sqn - Detachment | RAF China Bay | Mk VI Balloons |
| No 1 Fixed Torpedo Unit | RAF China Bay | |
| RAF Station Colombo | ||
| No 222 Group | RAF Colombo | |
| No 62 Repair and Salvage Unit | RAF Colombo | |
| No 89 Air Stores Park | RAF Colombo | |
| No 45 Embarkation Unit | RAF Colombo | |
| No 22 Wireless Unit | RAF Colombo | |
| No 990 Sqn | RAF Colombo | Mk VI Balloons |
| Calibration Flight | RAF Colombo | |
| No 25 Wireless Unit | RAF Colombo | |
| No 203 ASR Unit | RAF Colombo | |
| No 13 Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) | RAF Colombo | |
| No 20 Sector Operations Room | RAF Colombo | |
| No 30 Sqn | RAF Colombo | Hurricane |
| No 128 Repair and Salvage Unit | Dambulla | |
| No 93 Air Stores Park | Dambulla | |
| No 3 Sector Operations Room | Dambulla | |
| No 258 Sqn | Dambulla | Hurricane |
| No 539 AMES | Dutch Tower | |
| No 292 AMES | Elizabeth Point | |
| Transit Camp | Galle | |
| No 209 AMES | Galle | |
| No 4 AMES | Horton Plain | |
| No 553 AMES | Hambantota | |
| No 552 AMES | Kandaloya | |
| No 296 AMES | Kilinochcli | |
| No 5010 AMES | Kodiputumala | |
| No 1 Explosives Park | Kurunegala | |
| RAF Station Kogalla | ||
| No 205 Sqn | RAF Kogalla | Catalina |
| No 413 Sqn RCAF | RAF Kogalla | Catalina |
| No 524 AMES | Mount Lavinia | |
| No 858 AMES | Manning Town | |
| RAF Station Minneriya | ||
| No 538 AMES | Mutwal | |
| No 546 AMES | Namunukula | |
| No 589 AMES | Palavaki | |
| RAF Station Ratmalana | ||
| Communication Flight | RAF Ratmalana | |
| No 273 Sqn | RAF Ratmalana | Hurricane |
| No 2 Explosives Park | RAF Ratmalana | |
| No 2 Fixed Torpedo Unit | RAF Ratmalana | |
| No 160 Sqn | RAF Ratmalana | Liberator |
| No 290 AMES | Ridgeway | |
| No 254 AMES | Ridgeway | |
| No 849 AMES | Ridgeway | |
| No 3 AMES | Trincomalee | |
| No 2 Operations Room | Trincomalee | |
| ASR Unit | Trincomalee | |
| No 22 Sqn | Vavuniya | Beaufort |
| No 217 Sqn | Vavuniya | Hudson |
| Maldive Islands | ||
| No 2001 AMES | Addu Attol | |
| Island Base | Addu Attol | Under RAF Kogalla |
| Chagos Islands | ||
| Island Base | Diego Garcia | Under RAF Kogalla |
| Units in China (Under No 224 Group) | ||
| HQ RAF in China | Chengtu | |
| No 517 AMES | Chengtu | |
| No 677 AMES | Kunming | |
| Units not yet located | ||
| No 211 Sqn | ||
| No 191 Sqn | ||
| No 354 Sqn | ||
| No 90 Air Stores Park | ||
| No 97 Air Stores Park | ||
| No 83 Repair and Salvage Unit | ||
| No 84 Repair and Salvage Unit | ||
| Nos 176, 177 & 178 Wing | ||
| Nos 227 & 228 ASR Units | ||
| No 63 Embarkation Unit, Cochin | ||
| Nos 1571 - 1574 Gunnery Flights | ||
| No 321 Maintenance Unit | ||
| US Army Air Force
(10th Air Force) India and China Ancillary units are not shown |
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| China Task Force (10th Air Force) | Chungking | |
| HQ 10th Air Force | New Delhi | |
23rd Fighter Group comprising: -
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Kunming (China)
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P-40E |
51st Fighter Group comprising: -
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Dinjan
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P-40E |
341st Bombardment Group (Medium) comprising: -
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Chakulia
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B-25C |
7th Bombardment Group (Heavy) comprising: -
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Pandaveswar
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B-17 to be re-equipped with B-24s |
Source - April 1943 SD161
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