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 |
No 459 Signals Unit | Camp Hill North | |
No 112 Signals Unit | Halton Wood | |
No 7006 Reserve Flight | RAF High Wycombe | |
No 999 Signals Unit | Horseshoe Hill |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Bassingbourn | Canberra |
PR Element, No 231 OCU | RAF Merryfield | Satellite, Bassingbourn |
HQ, No 1 Group | RAF Bawtry | |
No 884 Signals Unit (Cowden) | RAF Bawtry | |
No 7007 Reserve Flight | RAF Bawtry | |
RAF Station Binbrook | ||
No 9 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 12 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 101 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 109/105 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Canberra |
No 7001 Reserve Flight | RAF Binbrook | |
No 217 Signals Unit (Chesil Bank) | Chesil Bank | |
C & M Party | RAF Coningsby | |
C & M Party | RAF Finningley | |
RAF Station Hemswell | ||
No 199 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln/Canberra |
Lincoln Conversion Flight | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln |
No 7002 Reserve Flight | RAF Hemswell | |
No 243 Signals Unit (Jurby) | Jurby | |
Bomber Command Bombing School | RAF Lindholme | Lincoln/Varsity |
Bomber Command Modification Centre | RAF Lindholme | Canberra |
No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Lindholme | |
No 731 Signals Unit (Luce Bay) | Luce Bay | |
RAF Station Merryfield | See above | |
C & M Party | RAF Scampton | |
No 149 Signals Unit | Theddlethorpe | |
RAF Station Upwood | ||
No 18 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Canberra |
No 35 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Canberra |
No 50 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Canberra |
No 61/144 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Canberra |
No 7003 Reserve Flight | RAF Upwood | |
RAF Station Waddington | ||
No 21 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Canberra |
No 27 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Canberra |
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Waddington | Vulcan |
No 7012 Reserve Flight | RAF Waddington | |
Chesil Beach Range Unit | Weymouth (Riaipole Lane) | |
No 53 Signals Unit | RAF Yeadon | MRPU, station in Home Command |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Alconbury | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Brize Norton | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Chelveston | Administered by USAF | |
No 388 Signals Unit | RAF Church Lawford | MRPU, station in Maintenance Command |
C & M Party | RAF Cottesmore | |
Joint School of Photographic Interpretation | RNAS Culham | |
RAF Station Fairford | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Gaydon | ||
No 232 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Gaydon | Valiant/Canberra |
RAF Station Greenham Common | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Honington | ||
No 10 Sqn | RAF Honington | Canberra |
No 15 Sqn | RAF Honington | Canberra |
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn | RAF Honington | Canberra |
No 57 Sqn | RAF Honington | Canberra |
No 7011 Reserve Flight | RAF Honington | |
RAF Station Lakenheath | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Marham | ||
No 115/218 Sqn | RAF Marham | Canberra |
No 148 Sqn | RAF Marham | Valiant |
No 207 Sqn | RAF Marham | Valiant |
No 214 Sqn | RAF Marham | Valiant |
No 7004 Reserve Flight | RAF Marham | |
RAF Station Mildenhall | Administered by USAF | |
HQ, No 3 Group | RAF Mildenhall | |
No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Chipmunk |
No 7008 Reserve Flight | RAF Mildenhall | |
RAF Wordwell | Satellite, Mildenhall | |
RAF Station Molesworth | Administered by USAF | |
Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (UK) | RAF Nuneham Park | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I)) |
No 7010 Reserve Flight | RAF Nuneham Park | |
RAF Station Sculthorpe | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Upper Heyford | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Weston Zoyland | ||
No 76 Sqn | RAF Weston Zoyland | Canberra |
No 542 Sqn | RAF Weston Zoyland | Canberra |
HQ, No 308.5 Task Force | RAF Weston Zoyland | |
HQ, Task Force Buffalo | RAF Weston Zoyland | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (Ops)) |
RAF Station Wimpole Park | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Wittering | ||
No 40 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Canberra |
No 49 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Valiant |
No 100 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Canberra |
No 138 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Valiant |
Bomber Command Armament School | RAF Wittering | |
Bomber Command Development Unit | RAF Wittering | |
No 7009 Reserve Flight | RAF Wittering | |
RAF Station Wyton | ||
No 58 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Canberra |
No 82 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Canberra |
No 543 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Valiant |
Radar Reconnaissance Flight | RAF Wyton | Lincoln/Canberra |
No 7005 Reserve Flight | RAF Wyton |
Bomber Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Bardney | Waddington | |
Barford St John | Upper Heyford | |
Croughton | Upper Heyford | |
Deenethorpe | Wittering | |
Desborough | Wittering | |
Donna Nook | Binbrook | |
Downham Market | Marham | |
Dunkeswell | Merryfield | |
Eye | Honington | |
Fiskerton | Scampton | |
Folkingham | Cottesmore | |
Glatton | Upwood | |
Grafton Underwood | Wittering | |
Gransden Lodge | Bassingbourn | |
Grimsby | Binbrook | |
Horham | Honington | |
Kelstern | Binbrook | |
Kimbolton | Wyton | |
Knettishall | Honington | |
Market Harborough | Grafton Underwood | |
Mendlesham | Honington | |
Mepal | Upwood | |
Metfield | Honington | |
Metheringham | Coningsby | |
Middleton Stoney | Upper Heyford | |
Polebrook | Upwood | |
Rackheath | Honington | |
Spanhoe | Cottesmore | |
Spilsby | Coningsby | |
Steeple Morden | Bassingbourn | |
Swannington | Honington | |
Upottrey | Merryfield | |
Warboys | Upwood | |
Witchford | Wyton | |
Woolfox Lodge | Cottesmore |
Source - SD161 (190th Edition) - July 1956
County names used are those in use at the time
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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