Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

No 90 (Signals) Group - May 1956

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 71 Signals Unit	Aird Uig	C & M
RAF Station Bishopbriggs
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Bishopbriggs
HQ, No 1 RAF Police District	RAF Bishopbriggs	Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 126 Signals Unit	Calvo
RAF Station Cheadle No 36 Signals Unit No 219 Signals Unit No 772 Signals Unit No 661 Signals Unit No 224 Signals Unit	Stoke on Trent Highbridge Kinnaber Marston Montgomery Mere Branston Sutton Valence	- D/F Station D/F Station D/F Station D/F Station D/F Station
RAF Station Chigwell
Ground Radio Calibration Unit	RAF Chigwell
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Chigwell
RAF Station Digby
No 399 Signals Unit	RAF Digby	Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 7908 Reserve Flight	RAF Digby	Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 591 Signals Unit	RAF Digby
No 7907 Reserve Flight	RAF Digby
Radio Engineering Unit	RAF Henlow	Station in TTC
Radio Standards Centre	RAF Henlow
Special Signals Unit	RAF Kidbrooke	Station in Home Command
HQ, No 90 (Signals) Group	RAF Medmenham	Directly responsible to the Air Ministry
Radio Introduction Unit	RAF Medmenham	Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng)
No 7911 Reserve Flight	RAF Medmenham
RAF Station Norton
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Norton
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Pucklechurch	Station in Home Command
No 91 Signals Unit	Saxa Vord	C & M
No 437 Signals Unit	Trewan Sands	GCI
Central Signals Establishment	RAF Watton	Lincoln
No 116 Sqn	RAF Watton	Varsity/Hastings
No 192 Sqn	RAF Watton	Canberra/Washington
No 527 Sqn	RAF Watton	Canberra/Varsity
RAF Station Wythall: controlling: -
No 635 Signals Unit	Barkway	GEE Monitor
No 7910 Reserve Flight	Barkway
No 206 Signals Unit	Bircham Newton	M/F D/F Station (C & M)
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 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 (C & M)
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

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Deopham Green	Watton
Doncaster	Norton
Fersfield	Watton
Grangemouth	Bishopbriggs
Hammersley Hayes	Cheadle
Orby (Radar)	Stenigot
Shipdham	Watton
Thorpe Abbots	Watton
Tibenham	Watton
Whalehead (Radar)	Bishopbriggs

Source - SD161 (188th Edition) - May 1956

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

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