Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Bomber Command - April 1952

[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	Eastleigh (Nairobi)	Lancaster PR 1/Dakota

No 1 (Bomber) Group

HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
RAF Station Bassingbourn		Allocated to USAF
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit	RAF Bassingbourn	Canberra/Meteor
RAF Station Binbrook
No 9 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Lincoln B2
No 12 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 101 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 617 Sqn	RAF Binbrook	Canberra
No 889 Signals Unit	RAF Binbrook	GH
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight	RAF Binbrook	Meteor
No 1 Group Communications Flight	RAF Finningley	Station in FTC
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 124 Signals Unit	RAF Hemswell	GH
No 112 Signals Unit	High Street, Darsham	GH, station in Fighter Command
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit	RAF Scampton	Various
Instrument Rating and Examining Flight	RAF Scampton
No 757 Signals Unit	RAF Scampton	GH
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 459 Signals Unit	RAF Wythall	GH, station in No 90 Group

No 3 Group

HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
RAF Station Benson	Benson, Oxfordshire
No 58 Sqn	RAF Benson	Mosquito PR 34
No 540 Sqn	RAF Benson	Mosquito PR 34
RAF Station Brize Norton		Allocated to USAF
No 72 Signals Unit	RAF Chicksands	AMES, station in No 90 Group
No 388 Signals Unit	RAF Church Lawford	MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
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
No 53 Signals Unit	RAF Coningsby	MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Fairford		Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Greenham Common		Allocated to USAF
Air Position Plotting Unit	RAF Kidlington	Station in Maintenance 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 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
Radar Reconnaissance Flight	RAF Upwood	Lincoln
RAF Station Wimpole Park		Allocated to USAF
RAF Station Wyton		Allocated to USAF

Bomber Command, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Abbots Ripton	Wyton	S
Barford St John	Upper Heyford	S
Chalgrove	Benson	S
Croughton	Upper Heyford	R
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
Middleton Stoney	Upper Heyford	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 (139th Edition) - April 1952

County names used are those in use at the time

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

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