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No 90 (Signals) Group - April 1954

[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 Bishopbriggs    
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Bishopbriggs  
No 126 Signals Unit Calvo  
No 824 Signals Unit Charmy Down  
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 399 Signals Unit
  • No 36 Signals Unit
  • No 219 Signals Unit
  • No 772 Signals Unit
  • No 661 Signals Unit
  • No 224 Signals Unit
 Stoke on Trent
  • Hammersley Hayes
  • Highbridge
  • Kinnaber
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Sutton Valence

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  • Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
No 136 Signals Unit Chenies  
RAF Station Chigwell    
Ground Radar Calibration Unit RAF Chigwell  
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
RAF Station Digby    
C & M Party RAF Grangemouth  
No 405 Signals Unit Hartland Point  
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
No 1 Radio Equipment Calibration Centre RAF Henlow Functionally controlled by AM (DAIS)
Radio Standards Centre RAF Henlow Functionally controlled by AM (DAIS)
Special Signals Unit RAF Kidbrooke Station in Home Command
No 591 Signals Unit RAF Medmenham  
No 675 Signals Unit RAF Medmenham  
Radio Introduction 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 997 Signals Unit St Annes  
No 991 Signals Unit St Twynnells  
No 320 Signals Unit Scarnish  
No 644 Signals Unit Treleaver  
No 437 Signals Unit Trewan Sands GCI
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  
No 116 Sqn RAF Watton  
No 192 Sqn RAF Watton Canberra/Washington
No 527 Sqn RAF Watton Lincoln/Meteor
No 471 Signals Unit RAF Watton  
RAF Station Wythall   Includes establishment of RNAW

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
No 81 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands  
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  
North-West Signals Centre Haydock  
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  

 

Radio Navigational Aids Wing

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 969 Signals Unit Sango CH (C & M)

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Clett (Radar) Bishopbriggs  
Deopham Green Watton  
Fersfield Watton  
Loth (Radar) Bishopbriggs  
Ripperstone Wythall  
Shipdham Watton  
South Ronaldsay (Radar) Bishopbriggs  
Tannoch (Radar) Bishopbriggs  
Thorpe Abbots Watton  
Tibenham Watton  
Watness (Radar) Bishopbriggs  
Whalehead (Radar) Bishopbriggs  

Source - SD161 (163rd Edition) - April 1954

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

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