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Bomber Command - December 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  

 

No 1 (Bomber) Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Bassingbourn Canberra
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  
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 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  
No 53 Signals Unit RAF Yeadon MRPU, station in Home Command

 

No 3 Group

 
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
No 237 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Wyton Canberra
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  
King's Cliffe Wittering  
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  
Wickenby Hemswell  
Woolfox Lodge Cottesmore  

Source - SD161 (195th Edition) - December 1956

County names used are those in use at the time

[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

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