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Bomber Command - October 1957


[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  

 

No 1 (Bomber) Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Bassingbourn Canberra
HQ, No 1 Group RAF Bawtry  
No 7007 Reserve Flight RAF Bawtry  
RAF Station Binbrook    
No 9 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 12 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 7001 Reserve Flight RAF Binbrook  
No 217 Signals Unit (Chesil Bank) Chesil Bank  
RAF Station Finningley    
No 101 Sqn RAF Finningley Vulcan
No 1 Group Communications Flight RAF Finningley Anson/Chipmunk
No 243 Signals Unit (Jurby) Jurby Station in TTC
Bomber Command Bombing School RAF Lindholme Lincoln/Varsity
C & M Party RAF Scampton  
No 149 Signals Unit Theddlethorpe  
RAF Station Upwood    
No 35 Sqn RAF Upwood Canberra
No 50/40 Sqn RAF Upwood Canberra
No 61/144 Sqn RAF Upwood Canberra
No 7003 Reserve Flight RAF Upwood  
RAF Station Waddington    
No 83 Sqn RAF Waddington Vulcan
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
Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (UK) RAF Brampton Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I)), station in TTC
Central Reconnaissance Establishment RAF Brampton
No 7010 Reserve Flight RAF Brampton  
No 388 Signals Unit RAF Church Lawford MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Coningsby    
No 57 Sqn RAF Coningsby Canberra
C & M Party RAF Cottesmore  
Joint School of Photographic Interpretation RNAS Culham  
No 721 Signals Unit (Feltwell) RAF Feltwell Station in FTC
No 232 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Gaydon Valiant/Canberra
No 7013 Reserve Flight RAF Gaydon  
RAF Station Hemswell    
No 76 Sqn RAF Hemswell Canberra
No 542 Sqn RAF Hemswell Canberra
No 1321 Flight RAF Hemswell Lincoln/Canberra
No 1439 Flight RAF Hemswell Varsity/Whirlwind
Bomber Command Modification Centre RAF Hemswell Canberra
RAF Station Honington    
No 7 Sqn RAF Honington Valiant
No 90 Sqn RAF Honington Valiant
No 199 Sqn RAF Honington Valiant
No 7011 Reserve Flight RAF Honington  
RAF Station Marham    
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
C & M Party RAF Nuneham Park  
C & M Party RAF Weston Zoyland  
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  
Comberton Wood Bassingbourn  
Deenethorpe Wittering  
Desborough Wittering  
Donna Nook Binbrook  
Dunkeswell Merryfield  
Eye Honington  
Fiskerton Scampton  
Folkingham Cottesmore  
Goxhill Binbrook
Grafton Underwood Wittering  
Gransden Lodge Bassingbourn  
Grimsby Binbrook  
Horham Honington  
Kelstern Binbrook  
Kimbolton Wyton  
King's Cliffe Wittering  
Market Harborough Grafton Underwood  
Mendlesham Honington  
Mepal Upwood  
Metfield Honington  
Metheringham Coningsby  
North Killingholme Binbrook  
North Witham Cottesmore  
Polebrook Upwood  
Sandtoft Lindholme  
Skellingthorpe Waddington  
South Witham Cottesmore  
Spanhoe Cottesmore  
Spilsby Coningsby  
Steeple Morden Bassingbourn  
Upottrey Merryfield  
Warboys Upwood  
Wickenby Hemswell  
Witchford Wyton  
Woolfox Lodge Cottesmore  

Source - SD161 (205th Edition) - October 1957

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

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