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Transport Command - October 1957


[Inactive Stations]

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Abingdon
No 1 Parachute Training School RAF Abingdon Hastings
No 47 Sqn RAF Abingdon Beverley
No 53 Sqn RAF Lyneham Beverley
RAF Station Watchfield   Satellite of Abingdon
RAF Station Weston-on-the-Green   Satellite of Abingdon
RAF Station Benson Benson, Oxfordshire  
Ferry Training Unit RAF Benson Balliol/Meteor/Mosquito
The Queen's Flight RAF Benson Heron/Viking
No 147 Sqn RAF Benson  
No 167 Sqn RAF Benson Valetta
The Balloon Unit RAF Cardington Station in TTC
RAF Station Colerne    
No 24 Sqn RAF Colerne Hastings
No 511 Sqn RAF Colerne Hastings
RAF Station Dishforth    
No 242 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Dishforth Hastings/Valetta/Beverley
No 30 Sqn RAF Dishforth Beverley
No 215 Sqn RAF Dishforth Pioneer
No 1325 Flight RAF Dishforth Dakota
Transport Command Examining Unit RAF Dishforth  
RAF Station Rufforth   Satellite, Dishforth station in Home Command
RAF Staging Post Goose (Bay), Newfoundland  
RAF Station Hendon    
Metropolitan Communication Sqn RAF Hendon Anson/Chipmunk
Air Trooping Section and Transit Hotel RAF Hendon Functionally controlled by AM (D Mov)
RAF Liaison Party Istres, France  
RAF Station Lyneham    
No 99 Sqn RAF Lyneham Hastings
No 216 Sqn RAF Lyneham Comet
RAF Station Clyffe Pypard   Satellite, Lyneham
RAF Station Northolt    
RAF Staging Post Offut AFB, Nebraska  
RAF Staging Post Travis AFB, California  
HQ Transport Command RAF Upavon
Transport Command Communication Flight RAF Upavon
Transport Command Transport Support Staff and Mobile Operations Centre RAF Upavon
Transport Command Parachute Servicing Unit RAF Upper Heyford Station in Home Command

 

Transport Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Chalgrove Benson  
Shellingford Abingdon  

Source - SD161 (205th Edition) - October 1957

County names used are those in use at the time

[Inactive Stations]

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