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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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Bomber
Command - November 1956
[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 | |
| HQ, Task Force Buffalo | RAAF Edinburgh | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (Ops)) |
| No 112 Signals Unit | Halton Wood | |
| No 4 Joint Services Trials Unit | RAF High Wycombe | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (OR)) |
| 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 Wyton | 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 |
| Command Supply Support Unit | RAF Binbrook | |
| No 7001 Reserve Flight | RAF Binbrook | |
| No 217 Signals Unit (Chesil Bank) | Chesil Bank | |
| C & M Party | RAF Cottesmore | |
| C & M Party | RAF Finningley | |
| RAF Station Hemswell | ||
| No 199 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln/Canberra |
| Lincoln Conversion Flight | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln |
| Bomber Command Modification Centre | RAF Hemswell | Canberra |
| No 7002 Reserve Flight | RAF Hemswell | |
| No 243 Signals Unit (Jurby) | Jurby | |
| Bomber Command Bombing School | RAF Lindholme | Lincoln/Varsity |
| No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Lindholme | |
| No 731 Signals Unit (Luce Bay) | Luce Bay | |
| RAF Station Merryfield | ||
| 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 40 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 230 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Waddington | Vulcan |
| No 7012 Reserve Flight | RAF Waddington | |
| No 53 Signals Unit | RAF Yeadon | MRPU, station in Home Command |
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| RAF Station Alconbury | Administered by USAF | |
| Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (UK) | RAF Brampton | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I)), station in TTC |
| 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 Coningsby | |
| No 57 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| 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 |
| No 7013 Reserve Flight | RAF Gaydon | |
| RAF Station Greenham Common | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Honington | ||
| No 7 Sqn | RAF Honington | Valiant |
| No 10 Sqn | RAF Honington | Canberra |
| No 15 Sqn | RAF Honington | Canberra |
| No 44/55 (Rhodesia) 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 | |
| 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 |
| Chesil Beach Range Unit | Weymouth (Radipole Lane) | |
| RAF Station Wimpole Park | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Wittering | ||
| 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 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 | |
| Comberton Wood | Bassingbourn | |
| Croughton | Upper Heyford | |
| Deenethorpe | Wittering | |
| Desborough | Wittering | |
| Donna Nook | Binbrook | |
| Downham Market | Marham | |
| Dunkeswell | Merryfield | |
| Eye | Honington | |
| Fiskerton | Scampton | |
| Folkingham | Cottesmore | |
| Glatton | Upwood | |
| Goxhill | Binbrook | |
| 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 | |
| North Killingholme | Binbrook | |
| Polebrook | Upwood | |
| Rackheath | Honington | |
| Skellingthorpe | Waddington | |
| Spanhoe | Cottesmore | |
| Spilsby | Coningsby | |
| Steeple Morden | Bassingbourn | |
| Swannington | Honington | |
| Upottrey | Merryfield | |
| Warboys | Upwood | |
| Witchford | Wyton | |
| Woolfox Lodge | Cottesmore |
Source - SD161 (194th Edition) - November 1956
County names used are those in use at the time
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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