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 Benson | Benson, Oxfordshire | |
No 58 Sqn | RAF Benson | Anson/Mosquito |
No 82 Sqn | RAF Benson | Lancaster PR 1/Dakota |
No 8082 Servicing Echelon | RAF Benson | |
No 540 Sqn | RAF Benson | Mosquito |
No 541 Sqn | RAF Benson | Spitfire/Harvard |
RAF Station Nuneham Park | Satellite, Benson | |
Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) | RAF Nuneham Park | |
RAF Station Binbrook | ||
No 9 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
No 12 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
No 101 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
No 617 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
RAF Station Coningsby, | ||
No 109/105 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito B35 |
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito B35 |
RAF Station Hemswell | ||
No 83/150 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln B2 |
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln B2 |
No 100 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln B2 |
RAF Station Lindholme | Station in TTC | |
No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Lindholme | |
RAF Station Scampton | - | - |
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Scampton | Lincoln B2, Mosquito B35/NF19, Oxford T1/T2 |
Instrument Rating and Examining Flight | RAF Scampton | |
RAF Station Waddington | ||
No 50/103 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
No 57/104 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
No 61/144 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
No 6 GCA Unit | RAF Waddington |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Lakenheath | ||
RAF Station Marham | ||
RAF Station Mildenhall | ||
No 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Mildenhall | Lincoln B2* |
No 115/218 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Mildenhall | Lincoln B2* |
No 149 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Mildenhall | Lincoln B2* |
No 207 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Mildenhall | Lincoln B2* |
No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
RAF Station Sculthorpe | ||
RAF Station Upwood | ||
No 7/76 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2* |
No 49/102 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2* |
No 148 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2* |
No 214 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2* |
RAF Station Wyton | ||
No 15/21 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
No 90 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
No 138 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
*These squadrons only had 4 x aircraft each.
Source - SD161 (114th Edition) - March 1950
County names used are those in use at the time
[No 1 Group | No 3 Group]
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