Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
No 90 (Signals) Group - February 1953
[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]
HQ - Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Directly responsible to the Air Ministry)
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 351 Signals Unit | Anstruther | |
No 222 Signals Unit | Bawburgh | |
No 409 Signals Unit | Buchan | |
RAF Station Cheadle
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Stoke on Trent
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RAF Station Chigwell | ||
No 253 Signals Unit | RAF Chigwell | |
No 744 Signals Unit | RAF Chigwell | |
Radio Engineering Unit (Detachment) | RAF Chigwell | |
Ground Radar Calibration Unit | RAF Chigwell | |
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Chigwell | |
No 891 Signals Unit | Cold Hesledon | |
No 993 Signals Unit | Foreness | |
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Grangemouth | |
Radio Engineering Unit | RAF Henlow | Station in TTC |
Radio Fitting Party, Hong Kong | RAF Henlow | |
Radio Fitting Party, Nairobi | RAF Henlow | |
No 1 Radio Equipment Calibration Centre | RAF Henlow | Functionally controlled by AM (DAIS) |
Radio Standards Centre | RAF Henlow | Functionally controlled by AM (DAIS) |
No 977 Signals Unit | Inverbervie | |
No 802 Signals Unit | Kelvedon | |
Special Signals Unit | RAF Kidbrooke | |
HQ, No 70 Wing | RAF Medmenham | |
Radio Instruction Unit | RAF Medmenham | Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng) |
RAF Station Norton | ||
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Norton | |
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn | RAF Pucklechurch | Station in Home Command |
No 991 Signals Unit | St Twynnells | |
No 495 Signals Unit | Shipton | |
No 644 Signals Unit | Treleaver | |
Central Signals Establishment | RAF Watton | |
No 116 Sqn | RAF Watton | |
No 192 Sqn | RAF Watton | |
No 527 Sqn | RAF Watton | |
RAF Station Wythall | ||
No 591 Signals Unit | RAF Wythall | |
GCA Operators' School | RAF Wyton | Station in Bomber Command |
GCA Sqn | RAF Wyton | Oxford |
HQ - Bletchley
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
North-West Signals Centre | RAF Blackbrook | |
No 869 Signals Unit | Bletchley | |
No 81 Signals Unit | RAF Chicksands | |
No 124 Signals Unit | RAF Chicksands | GH |
No 889 Signals Unit | RAF Chicksands | GH, functionally controlled by HQ Bomber Command |
Meteorological Communications Centre | Dunstable | |
No 810 Signals Unit | Edlesborough | |
Gloucester Telecommunications Office | Gloucester | Station in Home Command |
No 962 Signals Unit | Greatworth | |
South West Signals Centre | Hawthorne | |
RAF Signals Office | London (Kingsway) | |
RAF Central Signals Centre | RAF Stanbridge | Section of Technical Wing, RAF Bletchley |
No 593 Signals Unit | Stoke Hammond | |
No 285 Signals Unit | Weyhill |
HQ - RAF Wythall
Unit | Location/Address | Function |
No 131 Signals Unit | Andover | M/F D/F Station |
No 635 Signals Unit | Barkway | GEE Monitor |
No 631 Signals Unit | Belfast (Comber) | 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 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 401 Signals Unit | Netherbutton | CH (C & M) |
No 548 Signals Unit | Ripperstone | GCI |
No 969 Signals Unit | Sango | CH (C & M) |
No 502 Signals Unit | Treleaver | GCI/CEW and/or CHEL |
No 437 Signals Unit | Trewan Sands | GCI |
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 (149th Edition) - February 1953
[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]
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