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Maintenance Command - May 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  

No 53 Wing

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

No 54 Wing

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

No 40 (Maintenance) Group

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 211 Maintenance Unit Bishop's Stortford 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
No 236 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

No 41 (Maintenance) Group

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, station in Army Co-operation Command
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 1475 (Training) Flt RAF Marston Moor 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, 

No 42 (Maintenance) Group

HQ - Burghfield Common, Nr Reading, Surrey

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot Alnwick, Northumberland  
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 Cloaksbriggs, nr Forfar  
Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot Crawley Crossing  
Aviation Fuel and Oil Distributing Depot Dalston  
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  
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 Distributing Depot Hethersett  
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  
Aviation Fuel and Oil Reserve Depot Kelmarsh  
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) Longparish 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 Reserve Depot Perton  
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  
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  

No 43 (Maintenance) Group

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 - May 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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