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Fighter Command - June 1957


[Command HQ | No 11 Group | No 12 Group | No 13 Group | No 81 Group | Inactive Stations]

Command HQ - RAF Stanmore, Middlesex

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Air Traffic Control Centre Barton Hall (MTCA)  
No 7259 Reserve Flight Barton Hall (MTCA)  
RAF Station Bovingdon    
Fighter Command Communication Sqn RAF Bovingdon Anson/Chipmunk/Meteor

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Chenies

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No 400 Signals Unit (Cottam)

RAF Driffield

Station in No 13 Group, functionally controlled AM (D of S (1))

Joint Experimental Helicopter Unit RAF Middle Wallop Functionally controlled by the War Office, station in No 81 Group
Air Defence Operations Centre RAF Stanmore  
HQ, Royal Observer Corps RAF Stanmore  
Metropolitan Air Defence Notification Centre Stanmore (Hill House)  
HQ (Unit) RAF Stanmore Park  
Film Production Unit Library RAF Stanmore Park Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (CIO)
No 7132 Reserve Flight RAF Stanmore Park  
No 7133 Reserve Flight RAF Stanmore Park  
No 7172 Reserve Flight RAF Stanmore Park  
No 7204 Reserve Flight RAF Stanmore Park  

 

No 11 Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Air Traffic Control Centre RAF Gloucester Station in Home Command
No 7256 Reserve Flight RAF Gloucester Station in Home Command
HQ, No 11 Group Hillingdon  
Air Traffic Control Centre (Uxbridge) Hillingdon  
No 7135 Reserve Flight Hillingdon  
No 7258 Reserve Flight Hillingdon  
RAF School of Land/Air Warfare RAF Old Sarum Anson/Chipmunk/Vampire, functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (Ops))
RAF Component, Joint School of Chemical Warfare Salisbury Functionally controlled by AM (DGD)
RAF Station Wethersfield   Administered by USAF
No 7272 Reserve Flight RAF Wethersfield  
Southern Sector
No 3617 (County of Hampshire) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Bournemouth  
Southern Sector Operations Centre RAF Box  
Southern Air Defence Notification Centre RAF Box  
C & M Party Charmy Down  
No 7216 Reserve Flight RAF Chivenor Station in No 81 Group
No 7217 Reserve Flight RAF Chivenor  
C & M Party Comberton  
No 926 Signals Unit Hope Cove GCI
No 7180 Reserve Flight Hope Cove  
No 1 Fighter Command Modification Centre RAF Leconfield Station in No 81 Group
C & M Party RAF Llandaff (Cardiff)  
RAF Station Odiham    
No 46 Sqn RAF Odiham Javelin
No 54 Sqn RAF Odiham Hunter
No 247 Sqn RAF Odiham Hunter
No 7118 Reserve Flight RAF Odiham  
No 815 Signals Unit Portland (The Verne) CEW
No 7177 Reserve Flight Portland (The Verne)  
C & M Party Ringstead  
No 991 Signals Unit St Twynnells  
No 383 Signals Unit Sennen CH (C & M)
No 7182 Reserve Flight Sennan  
No 227 Signals Unit RAF Sopley GCI
No 7211 Reserve Flight RAF Sopley  
RAF Station Tangmere    
No 1 Sqn RAF Tangmere Hunter
No 34 Sqn RAF Tangmere Hunter
No 7119 Reserve Flight RAF Tangmere  
No 644 Signals Unit Treleaver GCI
No 7213 Reserve Flight Treleaver  
Satellite, Treleaver Drytree CH
Satellite, Treleaver Trelanvean CH
No 943 Signals Unit Trerew CH (C & M)
No 7183 Reserve Flight Trerew  
No 607 Signals Unit Truleigh Hill CHEL
No 7210 Reserve Flight Truleigh Hill  
No 23 Signals Unit Ventnor CH, CHL (+CMH), CHEL
No 7179 Reserve Flight Ventnor  
No 307 Signals Unit West Myne  
Metropolitan Sector
No 144 Signals Unit RAF Bawdsey CH, CHL, CHEL
No 7205 Reserve Flight RAF Bawdsey  
Satellite, Bawdsey Trimley Heath  
No 880 Signals Unit Beachy Head CEW
No 7168 Reserve Flight Beachy Head  
RAF Station Biggin Hill    
No 41 Sqn RAF Biggin Hill Hunter
No 7116 Reserve Flight RAF Biggin Hill  
No 3701 Radar Reporting Unit RAuxAF Brighton  
C & M Party Dunkirk  
RAF Station Duxford    
No 64 Sqn RAF Duxford Meteor
No 65 Sqn RAF Duxford Hunter
HQ, No 4 RAF Police District (UK) RAF Duxford Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 7114 Reserve Flight RAF Duxford  
No 7276 Reserve Flight RAF Duxford  
No 3618 (County of Sussex) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Eastbourne  
No 229 Signals Unit Fairlight CHEL
No 7189 Reserve Flight Fairlight  
No 993 Signals Unit Foreness CHEL
No 3619 (County of Suffolk) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Ipswich (Airfield)  
Metropolitan Sector Operations Centre Kelvedon Hatch  
No 3604 (County of Middlesex) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF London (Queen's Square)  
RAF Station Manston    
No 3500 (County of Kent) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Margate  
RAF Station North Weald    
No 111 Sqn RAF North Weald Hunter
No 2 Fighter Command Modification Centre RAF North Weald  
No 7115 Reserve Flight RAF North Weald  
No 7167 Reserve Flight RAF North Weald  
No 1 Signals Unit St Margaret's Bay CEW
No 7169 Reserve Flight St Margaret's Bay  
Satellite, No 1 Signals Unit Swingate CH (+CMH), CHEL
No 491 Signals Unit RAF Sandwich GCI
No 7170 Reserve Flight RAF Sandwich  
No 7207 Reserve Flight RAF Sandwich  
No 919 Signals Unit RAF Wartling GCI
No 7208 Reserve Flight RAF Wartling  
Satellite, No 919 Signals Unit Pevensey CH
RAF Station Wattisham    
No 152 Sqn RAF Wattisham Meteor
No 263 Sqn RAF Wattisham Hunter
No 7113 Reserve Flight RAF Wattisham  
No 7279 Reserve Flight RAF Wattisham  
RAF Station West Malling Maidstone, Kent  
No 25 Sqn RAF West Malling Meteor
No 85 Sqn RAF West Malling Meteor
No 153 Sqn RAF West Malling Meteor
No 7117 Reserve Flight RAF West Malling  

No 12 Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station East Kirkby   Administered by the USAF
No 7273 Reserve Flight RAF East Kirkby  
RAF Station Newton    
HQ, No 12 Group RAF Newton  
No 12 Group Communication Flight RAF Newton  
No 7136 Reserve Flight RAF Newton  
No 7144 Reserve Flight RAF Newton  
No 7266 Reserve Flight RAF Newton  
No 7278 Reserve Flight RAF Newton  
RAF Station Shepherds Grove   Administered by USAF
No 7271 Reserve Flight RAF Shepherds Grove  
RAF Station Tibenham   Administered by USAF
Air Traffic Control Centre RAF Watnall  
No 7255 Reserve Flight RAF Watnall  
Central Fighter Establishment RAF West Raynham Hunter
No 7108 Reserve Flight RAF West Raynham  

Eastern Sector

Eastern Sector Operations Centre RAF Bawburgh  
RAF Station Bentwaters   Administered by the USAF
No 7270 Reserve Flight RAF Bentwaters  
RAF Station Woodbridge   Satellite, Bentwaters
RAF Station Coltishall    
No 7109 Reserve Flight RAF Coltishall  
No 7203 Reserve Flight RAF Coltishall  
No 7252 Reserve Flight RAF Coltishall  
No 250 Signals Unit Hopton CHEL
No 7192 Reserve Flight Hopton  
RAF Station Horsham St Faith    
No 23 Sqn RAF Horsham St Faith Javelin
No 74 Sqn RAF Horsham St Faith Hunter
No 141 Sqn RAF Horsham St Faith Javelin
No 7110 Reserve Flight RAF Horsham St Faith  
No 7202 Reserve Flight RAF Horsham St Faith  
No 7222 Reserve Flight RAF Langtoft  
No 271 Signals Unit RAF Neatishead GCI
Eastern Air Defence Notification Centre RAF Neatishead  
C & M Party RAF North Coates  
No 3620 (County of Norfolk) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Old Catton, Norwich  
No 3506 (County of Northampton) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Peterborough  
No 950 Signals Unit Skendleby CHEL
No 7219 Reserve Flight Skendleby  
RAF Station Stradishall  
No 89 Sqn RAF Stradishall Venom
No 245 Sqn RAF Stradishall Hunter
No 7112 Reserve Flight RAF Stradishall  
No 432 Signals Unit Trimmingham CHEL
No 7166 Reserve Flight Trimmingham  
RAF Station Waterbeach  
No 56 Sqn RAF Waterbeach Hunter
No 63 Sqn RAF Waterbeach Hunter
No 253 Sqn RAF Waterbeach Venom
No 7111 Reserve Flight RAF Waterbeach  
C & M Party West Beckham  
No 7269 Reserve Flight RAF Woodbridge  
C & M Party RAF Wymeswold  

Western Sector

RAF Station Bishop's Court    
No 7231 Reserve Flight Bishop's Court  
RAF Station Edenmore    
HQ, No 10 RAF Police District RAF Edenmore Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 3502 (Ulster) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Edenmore Station in Home Command
No 7280 Reserve Flight RAF Edenmore Functionally controlled by AM (DPS (PM))
No 3611 (West Lancashire) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Fazakerley Station in Home Command
No 17 Signals Unit Hack Green GCI
C & M Party RAF Honiley  
C & M Party RAF Hooton Park  
No 7232 Reserve Flight RAF Hooton Park  
No 255 Signals Unit Killard Point  
Western Sector Operations Centre RAF Longley Lane  
Satellite, Longley Lane Whittingham Lane  
No 212 Signals Unit Murlough Bay  
No 130 Signals Unit Prestatyn  
No 3613 (City of Manchester) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Ringway  
No 3621 (North Lancashire) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Squires Gate MTCA Airfield
No 997 Signals Unit St Annes  
No 7175 Reserve Flight Warton Station in Maintenance Command
No 7247 Reserve Flight Warton  
No 7250 Reserve Flight Warton  
Western Air Defence Notification Centre Whittingham Lane  

 

No 13 Group

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Holme-on-Spalding Moor   Administered by the USAF
RAF Station Kirknewton   Administered by the USAF
No 7275 Reserve Flight RAF Kirknewton  
Air Traffic Control Centre Prestwick (MTCA)  
No 7257 Reserve Flight Prestwick (MTCA)  
RAF Station Sturgate   Administered by the USAF
No 7274 Reserve Flight RAF Sturgate  
No 275 Sqn RAF Thornaby Sycamore

Northern Sector

RAF Station Acklington    
No 29 Sqn RAF Acklington Meteor
No 66 Sqn RAF Acklington Hunter
No 146 Signals Unit Bempton CHL, CHEL
No 7160 Reserve Flight Bempton  
No 500 Signals Unit Boulmer  
No 7229 Reserve Flight Boulmer  
RAF Station Church Fenton    
No 19 Sqn RAF Church Fenton Hunter
No 72 Sqn RAF Church Fenton Meteor
No 7106 Reserve Flight RAF Church Fenton  
No 891 Signals Unit Cold Hesledon CEW
No 7162 Reserve Flight Cold Hesledon  
C & M Party Danby Beacon  
RAF Station Driffield    
No 33 Sqn RAF Driffield Venom
No 219 Sqn RAF Driffield Venom
No 7134 Reserve Flight RAF Driffield  
RAF Station Elvington   Administered by the USAF
No 39 Signals Unit Goldsborough  
No 7161 Reserve Flight Goldsborough  
RAF Station Linton-on-Ouse    
No 7105 Reserve Flight RAF Linton-on-Ouse  
No 7225 Reserve Flight RAF Linton-on-Ouse  
RAF Station Long Benton    
No 3508 (County of Northumberland) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Long Benton  
RAF Station Middle St George    
No 92 Sqn RAF Middle St George Hunter
No 264 Sqn RAF Middle St George Meteor
RAF Station Ouston    
HQ, No 13 Group RAF Ouston  
No 13 Group Communication Flight RAF Ouston  
No 7104 Reserve Flight RAF Ouston  
No 7137 Reserve Flight RAF Ouston  
No 7147 Reserve Flight RAF Ouston  
No 7198 Reserve Flight RAF Ouston  
No 336 Signals Unit RAF Patrington GCI
No 7227 Reserve Flight RAF Patrington  
No 59 Signals Unit Seaton Snook GCI
No 7228 Reserve Flight Seaton Snook  
Northern Sector Operations Centre RAF Shipton  
No 3505 (East Riding) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Sutton-on-Hull Station in TTC
RAF Station Thornaby    
No 3608 (North Riding) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Thornaby  
No 7165 Reserve Flight RAF Watnall Station in No 12 Group
Northern Air Defence Notification Centre RAF Watnall  
No 3609 (West Yorkshire) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Yeadon Station in Home Command

Caledonian Sector

No 351 Signals Unit Anstruther  
No 7243 Reserve Flight Anstruther  
No 7233 Reserve Flight RAF Ballykelly Station in Coastal Command
Caledonian Sector Operations Centre Barnton Quarry
Caledonian Air Defence Notification Centre Barnton Quarry
No 7235 Reserve Flight RAF Bishopbriggs Station in No 90 Group
No 7242 Reserve Flight RAF Bishopbriggs Station in No 90 Group
No 7245 Reserve Flight RAF Bishopbriggs Station in No 90 Group
No 409 Signals Unit Buchan  
No 7238 Reserve Flight Buchan  
No 617 Signals Unit Crosslaw  
No 7152 Reserve Flight Crosslaw  
No 3511 (City of Dundee) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Dundee  
RAF Station Dyce    
No 3612 (County of Aberdeen) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Dyce  
No 7200 Reserve Flight RAF Dyce  
No 3603 (City of Edinburgh) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Edinburgh  
C & M Party Faraid Head  
Satellite, Faraid Head Sango  
No 3602 (City of Glasgow) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF Glasgow  
No 977 Signals Unit Inverbervie  
No 7241 Reserve Flight Inverbervie  
No 127 Signals Unit Kilchiaran  
RAF Station Leuchars  
No 43 Sqn RAF Leuchars Hunter
No 151 Sqn RAF Leuchars Javelin
No 222 Sqn RAF Leuchars Hunter
No 7101 Reserve Flight RAF Leuchars  
C & M Party Netherbutton  
No 320 Signals Unit Scarinish  
C & M Party School Hill  
RAF Station Turnhouse  
RAF Turnhouse Communication Sqn RAF Turnhouse  
No 7102 Reserve Flight RAF Turnhouse  
No 7151 Reserve Flight RAF Turnhouse  
No 7249 Reserve Flight RAF Turnhouse  

 

No 81 Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 7103 Reserve Flight RAF Acklington

Station in No 13 Group

No 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Chivenor Hunter/Vampire
RAF Colerne Communication Sqn RAF Colerne  
C & M Party RAF Filton  
No 3507 (County of Somerset) Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF RAF Filton  
HQ, No 6 RAF Police District (UK) RAF Filton Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 7277 Reserve Flight RAF Filton Functionally controlled by AM (DPS (PM))
No 405 Signals Unit Hartland Point  
No 966 Signals Unit RAF Langtoft GCI
Fighter Weapons School RAF Leconfield Meteor/Venom
No 7264 Reserve Flight RAF Leconfield  
No 228 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Leeming Meteor
RAF Station Middle Wallop  
No 288 Sqn RAF Middle Wallop Balliol
School of Control and Reporting RAF Middle Wallop  
No 238 Operational Conversion Unit RAF North Luffenham Brigand/Balliol
No 7260 Reserve Flight RAF North Luffenham  
No 233 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Pembrey Hunter/Vampire
No 7265 Reserve Flight RAF Pembrey  
RAF Station Rudloe Manor    
HQ, No 81 Group RAF Rudloe Manor  
No 7145 Reserve Flight RAF Rudloe Manor  
No 7176 Reserve Flight RAF Rudloe Manor  
No 7251 Reserve Flight RAF Rudloe Manor  

 

Fighter Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Beccles Horsham St Faith  
Benbecula Turnhouse  
Birch Wattisham  
Bottisham Waterbeach  
Boxted Wattisham  
Bradwell Bay Wattisham  
Branscombe (Radar) Hope Cove  
Breighton Church Fenton  
Burn Church Fenton  
Carew Cheriton Pembrey  
Carnaby Driffield  
Castle Camps Stradishall  
Chipping Onger North Weald  
Cocklaw (Radar)    
Cottam Driffield  
Creswell (Radar) Acklington  
Debach Wattisham  
Detling West Malling  
Douglas Wood Anstruther  
Drem Turnhouse  
Drone Hill Crosslaw  
Dunsfold Odiham  
Earls Colne Wattisham  
Easington (Radar) Patrington  
East Fortune Turnhouse  
East Moor Linton-on-Ouse  
Escrick Church Fenton  
Eshott Acklington  
Exminster Hope Cove  
Fowlmere Duxford  
Fraserburgh Dyce  
Fullarton (Radar)    
Gailes ATCC Prestwick (MTCA)  
Gorleston Horsham St Faith  
Great Massingham West Raynham  
Halesworth Horsham St Faith  
Happisburgh (Radar) Coltishall  
Hardwick Horsham St Faith  
Hawkshill Down Sandwich  
High Street, Darsham Horsham St Faith  
Hill Head Buchan  
Holmesley South Sopley  
Husbands Bosworth North Luffenham  
Ibsley Sopley  
Kete (Radar) Prembrey  
Lasham Odiham  
Lavenham Stradishall  
Leicester East Wymeswold  
Little Walden Duxford  
Ludham Coltishall  
Macmerry (Technical Site) Turnhouse  
Matching North Weald  
Melbourne Leconfield  
Melton Mowbray Wymeswold  
Milfield Crosslaw  
Neasham (Croft) Middle St George  
Northan (Radar) Chivenor  
Nuthampstead Duxford  
Pocklington Leconfield  
Poling Tangmere  
Ponteland (M/F D/F) Acklington  
Rattlesden Wattisham  
Raydon Wattisham  
Ridgewell Stradishall  
Rosehearty (Radar) Dyce  
Rye Wartling  
Southburn Driffield  
Staxton Wold Driffield  
Stoke Holy Cross Horsham St Faith  
Sudbury Stradishall  
Talbenny (M/F D/F) Pembrey  
Tarrant Rushton Old Sarum  
Tealing Leuchars  
Templeton Pembrey  
Tholthorpe Linton-on-Ouse  
Warmwell Portland  
Winkleigh Chivenor  
Winterton Coltishall  
Wrafton (Radar) Chivenor  

Source - SD161 (201st Edition) - June 1957

County names used are those in use at the time

[Command HQ | No 11 Group | No 12 Group | No 13 Group | No 81 Group | Inactive Stations]

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