Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Bomber Command - February 1951
[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 Home Command |
No 82 Sqn | Takoradi (West Africa) | Lancaster PR 1/Dakota |
West African Air Survey Base Party | Takoradi (West Africa) |
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 |
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight | RAF Binbrook | Meteor |
No 6 GCA Unit | RAF Binbrook | |
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 | |
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 |
No 100 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Bassingbourn | ||
RAF Station Benson | Benson, Oxfordshire | |
No 58 Sqn | RAF Benson | Anson/Mosquito/Lincoln |
No 540 Sqn | RAF Benson | Mosquito |
No 541 Sqn | RAF Benson | Spitfire/Harvard |
No 237 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Benson | Various |
RAF Station Brize Norton | ||
RAF Station Coningsby | ||
No 15/21 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Washington B1 |
No 149 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Washington B1 |
RAF Station Fairford | ||
RAF Station Lakenheath | ||
RAF Station Marham | ||
Washington Conversion Unit | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
No 90 Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
No 115/218 Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
No 26 GCA Unit | RAF Marham | |
RAF Station Mildenhall | ||
No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
RAF Wordwell | Satellite, Mildenhall | |
RAF Station Nuneham Park | ||
Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) | RAF Nuneham Park | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I)) |
RAF Station Sculthorpe | ||
RAF Station Upper Heyford | ||
RAF Station Middleton Stoney | Satellite, 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 |
No 4 Mobile Radar Control Post | RAF Upwood | |
RAF Station Wyton |
Bomber Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Abbots Ripton | Wyton | S |
Barford St John | Upper Heyford | S |
Chalgrove | Benson | S |
Downham Market | Marham | S |
East Kirkby | Coningsby | R |
Glatton | Upwood | S |
Gransden Lodge | Bassingbourn | R |
Hampsted Norris | Benson | S |
Kelstern | Binbrook | S |
Kimbolton | Wyton | S |
Little Snoring | Sculthorpe | R |
Ludford Magna | Binbrook | S |
Mepal | Upwood | S |
Metheringham | Waddington | R |
Molesworth | Wyton | R |
Newmarket | Mildenhall | S |
Polebrook | Upwood | R |
Sandtoft | Lindholme | R |
Spilsby | Coningsby | R |
Steeple Morden | Bassingbourn | R |
Sturgate | Hemswell | R |
Sutton Bridge | Marham | R |
Warboys | Upwood | S |
Witchford | Wyton | S |
S = Surplus to long-term requirements
R = Retention is currently required
Source - SD161 (125th Edition) - February 1951
County names used are those in use at the time
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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