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Bomber Command - July 1950


[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Bomber Command Communication Flight Booker Station in Reserve Command
No 82 Sqn RAF Eastleigh (East Africa) Lancaster PR 1/Dakota
West African Air Survey Base Party Takoradi (West Africa)

 

No 1 (Bomber) Group

HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Binbrook    
No 9 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
No 12 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
No 101 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
No 617 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
RAF Station Coningsby,    
C & M Party RAF Coningsby  
RAF Station Hemswell    
No 83/150 Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln B2
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln B2
No 109/105 Sqn RAF Hemswell Mosquito B35
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF Hemswell Mosquito B35
No 1 Group Communications Flight RAF Lindholme Station in TTC
RAF Station Scampton - -
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Scampton Various
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 (on attachment to FEAF)
No 61/144 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2
No 100 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2
No 6 GCA Unit RAF Waddington  

No 3 Group

HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Benson Benson, Oxfordshire  
No 58 Sqn RAF Benson Anson/Mosquito
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 Brize Norton    
RAF Station Fairford    
RAF Station Lakenheath    
RAF Station Marham    
Bomber Command B29 Training Sqn RAF Marham  
No 115/218 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
RAF Station Mildenhall    
No 3 Group Communications Flight RAF Mildenhall Anson/Proctor
RAF Station Sculthorpe    
RAF Station Upper Heyford    
RAF Station Weston-on-the-Green   Satellite, Upper Heyford
RAF Station Upwood    
No 7/76 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
No 49/102 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
No 148 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
No 214 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
RAF Station Wyton    
No 15/21 Sqn RAF Wyton Lincoln B2
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF Wyton Lincoln B2
No 90 Sqn RAF Wyton Lincoln B2
No 138 Sqn RAF Wyton Lincoln B2
WRAF School of Domestic Subjects RAF Wyton  

 

Bomber Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Abbots Ripton Wyton S
Chalgrove Benson S
Downham Market Marham S
East Kirkby Coningsby R
Glatton Upwood S
Hampsted Norris Benson S
Kelstern Binbrook S
Kimbolton Wyton S
Ludford Magna Binbrook S
Mepal Upwood S
Metheringham Waddington R
Molesworth Wyton R
Newmarket Mildenhall S
Polebrook Upwood R
Spilsby Coningsby R
Sturgate Hemswell R
Sutton Bridge Marham R
Warboys Upwood S

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (118th Edition) - July 1950

County names used are those in use at the time

[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

This page was last updated on 21/07/23©

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