Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
[No 1 Group | No 3 Group]
Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
Bomber Command Communication Flight | Booker |
HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Binbrook | ||
No 9 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
No 12 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
No 101 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
No 617 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
RAF Station Coningsby, | ||
No 109 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito B 35 |
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito B 35 |
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito III/B 35/Anson XII/XIX |
RAF Station Hemswell | ||
No 83 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln II |
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln II |
No 100 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln II |
No 6 GCA Unit | RAF Hemswell | |
RAF Station Lindholme | ||
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Lindholme | Lancaster I (FE), Mosquito B 35, Oxford I/II |
No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Lindholme | |
RAF Station Scampton | ||
No 1 Group Major Servicing Unit | RAF Scampton | |
RAF Station Waddington | ||
No 50 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln II |
No 57 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln II |
No 61 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln II |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Marham | ||
Central Bomber Establishment (Cadre) | RAF Marham | Various |
RAF Station North Pickenham | Satellite of Marham | |
RAF Station Mildenhall | ||
No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
No 3 Group Major Servicing Unit | RAF Mildenhall | |
RAF Station Stradishall | ||
No 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 115 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 149 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 207 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
RAF Station Upwood | ||
No 7 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 49 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 148 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 214 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
RAF Station Wyton | ||
No 15 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
No 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
No 90 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
No 138 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
Source - SD161 (91st Edition) - April 1948
County names used are those in use at the time
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