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Bomber Command - November 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)

 

No 1 (Bomber) Group

HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Bassingbourn   Allocated to USAF
No 237 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Bassingbourn
RAF Station Binbrook    
No 9 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
No 12 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
No 101 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 617 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lincoln B2
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight RAF Binbrook Meteor
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 FTC
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Scampton Various
Instrument Rating and Examining Flight RAF Scampton  
RAF Station Waddington    
No 57/104 Sqn RAF Waddington Washington B1
No 61/144 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2
No 100 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2

 

No 3 Group

HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Benson Benson, Oxfordshire  
No 58 Sqn RAF Benson Anson/Mosquito/Lincoln
No 540 Sqn RAF Benson Mosquito
Radar Reconnaissance Flight RAF Benson  
RAF Station Brize Norton   Allocated to USAF
No 72 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands Station in No 90 Group
No 124 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands Station in No 90 Group
No 550 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands Station in No 90 Group
No 757 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands Station in No 90 Group
No 889 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands Station in No 90 Group
RAF Station Coningsby    
No 15/21 Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
No 149 Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
RAF Station Fairford   Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Greenham Common   Allocated to USAF
No 112 Signals Unit High Street, Darsham Station in Fighter Command
RAF Station Lakenheath   Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Marham    
No 35 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
No 90 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
No 115/218 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
No 207 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
RAF Station Mildenhall    
No 3 Group Communications Flight RAF Mildenhall Anson/Proctor
RAF Wordwell   Satellite, Mildenhall, allocated to USAF
Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) RAF Nuneham Park Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I))
RAF Station Sculthorpe   Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Upper Heyford   Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Middleton Stoney   Satellite, Upper Heyford
RAF Station Croughton   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 Wimpole Park   Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Wyton   Allocated to USAF
No 459 Signals Unit RAF Wythall Station in No 90 Group

 

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
Fiskerton Scampton S
Glatton Upwood S
Gransden Lodge Bassingbourn R
Hampstead 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
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 (134th Edition) - November 1951

County names used are those in use at the time

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

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