Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
[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 |
HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Bassingbourn | ||
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Bassingbourn | Canberra/Meteor |
RAF Station Binbrook | ||
No 9 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 12 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 50/103 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 101 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 617 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
Bomber Command Acceptance and Modification Unit | RAF Binbrook | |
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 | Canberra |
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Canberra |
No 199 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln/Mosquito |
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight | RAF Hemswell | Meteor/Canberra |
No 112 Signals Unit | High Street, Darsham | GH, station in Fighter Command |
Bomber Command Bombing School | RAF Lindholme | Lincoln B2 |
RAF Station Scampton | ||
No 10 Sqn | RAF Scampton | Canberra |
No 999 Signals Unit | Staxton Wold | GH, station in Fighter Command |
RAF Station Waddington | ||
No 49/102 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
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 |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Brize Norton | Administered by USAF | |
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 57/104 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 | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Greenham Common | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Lakenheath | Administered by 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 |
Washington Conversion Unit | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
RAF Station Mildenhall | ||
No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
RAF Wordwell | Satellite, Mildenhall, allocated to USAF | |
RAF Station Molesworth | Administered by USAF | |
Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) | RAF Nuneham Park | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I)) |
RAF Station Sculthorpe | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Upper Heyford | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Upwood | ||
No 7/76 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 | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Wittering | ||
RAF Station Wyton | ||
No 58 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Mosquito |
No 82 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lancaster |
No 540 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Canberra |
Bomber Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Abbots Ripton | Wyton | S |
Barford St John | Upper Heyford | S |
Croughton | Upper Heyford | R |
Deenethorpe | Wittering | S |
Desborough | Wittering | R |
Downham Market | Marham | S |
Fiskerton | Scampton | S |
Glatton | Upwood | S |
Gransden Lodge | Bassingbourn | R |
Grimsby | Binbrook | R |
Kelstern | Binbrook | S |
Kimbolton | Wyton | S |
Mepal | Upwood | S |
Metheringham | Waddington | R |
Middleton Stoney | Upper Heyford | R |
Newmarket | Mildenhall | S |
Polebrook | Upwood | R |
Spilsby | Coningsby | R |
Steeple Morden | Bassingbourn | R |
Sutton Bridge | Marham | R |
Warboys | Upwood | S |
Witchford | Wyton | S |
S = Surplus to long-term requirements
R = Retention is currently required
Source - SD161 (151st Edition) - April 1953
County names used are those in use at the time
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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