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No 90 (Signals) Group - March 1952

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

HQ - Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Directly responsible to the Air Ministry)

 

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 36 Signals Unit
  • No 772 Signals Unit
  • No 661 Signals Unit
  • No 219 Signals Unit
  • No 224 Signals Unit
 Stoke on Trent
  • Highbridge
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Montrose
  • Sutton Valence
 Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
RAF Station Chigwell    
Radio Engineering Unit (Detachment) RAF Chigwell  
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Grangemouth  
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
HQ, No 70 Wing RAF Medmenham  
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Norton  
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Pucklechurch Station in Home Command
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  
No 192 Sqn RAF Watton  
No 199 Sqn RAF Watton  
RAF Station Wythall    

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
North-West Signals Centre RAF Blackbrook  
Standby Signals Centre RAF Chicksands  
Meteorological Communications Centre Dunstable  
W/T Station Edlesborough  
W/T Station Greatworth  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
Gloucester Telecommunications Office RAF Innsworth |Station in Home Command
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge  
W/T Station Stoke Hammond  
W/T Station (C & M) Weyhill  

 

Radio Navigational Aids Wing

HQ - RAF Welford

Unit Location/Address Function
No 75 Signals Unit Acklington M/F D/F Station
No 131 Signals Unit Andover M/F D/F Station
No 635 Signals Unit Barkway GEE Monitor
No 631 Signals Unit Belfast M/F D/F Station
No 206 Signals Unit Bircham Newton M/F D/F Station
No 411 Signals Unit Bullbarrow Hill GEE Master
No 92 Signals Unit Clee Hill GEE Slave
No 699 Signals Unit Daventry GEE Master
No 561 Signals Unit Folly GEE Slave
No 796 Signals Unit Gibbett Hill GEE Slave
No 62 Signals Unit Leuchars M/F D/F Station
No 334 Signals Unit Lympne M/F D/F Station
No 288 Signals Unit Pendeen M/F D/F Station
No 480 Signals Unit Plympton M/F D/F Station
No 534 Signals Unit Ponteland M/F D/F Station
No 987 Signals Unit Sealand M/F D/F Station
No 428 Signals Unit Sennen GEE Slave
No 899 Signals Unit Sharpitor GEE Master
No 4 Signals Unit Stenigot GEE Slave
No 214 Signals Unit Stornoway M/F D/F Station
No 233 Signals Unit Sumburgh M/F D/F Station
No 104 Signals Unit Talbenny, M/F D/F Station
No 564 Signals Unit Trerew GEE Monitor
No 894 Signals Unit Truleigh Hill GEE Slave
No 380 Signals Unit West Prawle GEE Slave
No 200 Signals Unit Wick M/F D/F Station
No 407 Signals Unit Worth Matravers GEE Slave & Monitor

 

Radar Stations being re-equipped

 
Unit Location/Address Function
No 858 Signals Unit Castle Rock CH
No 185 Signals Unit Drytree CH (C & M)
No 508 Signals Unit Folly CH (C & M)
No 392 Signals Unit Haycastle Cross CH (C & M)
No 401 Signals Unit Netherbutton CH (C & M)
No 548 Signals Unit Ripperstone GCI
No 969 Signals Unit Sango CH (C & M)
No 383 Signals Unit Sennen CH (C & M)
No 708 Signals Unit Trelanvean CH (C & M)
No 502 Signals Unit Treleaver GCI/CEW and/or CHEL
No 943 Signals Unit Trerew CH (C & M)
No 437 Signals Unit Trewan Sands GCI
No 620 Signals Unit West Prawle CH (C & M)

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Clett (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Deopham Green Watton S
Fersfield Watton S
Loth (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Shipdam Watton S
South Ronaldsay (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Tannoch (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Thorpe Abbots Watton S
Tibenham Watton R
Watness (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Whalehead (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (138th Edition) - March 1952

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

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