Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
[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) | Camp Hill North | |
No 112 Signals Unit (Halton Wood) | Halton Wood | |
No 7006 Reserve Flight | RAF High Wycombe | |
No 999 Signals Unit (Horseshoe Hill) | Horseshoe Hill |
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 | |
No 388 Signals Unit (Church Lawford) | RAF Church Lawford | MRPU, station in Maintenance Command |
RAF Station Coningsby | ||
Bomber Command Air Crew Holding Unit | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
No 721 Signals Unit (Feltwell) | RAF Feltwell | Station in FTC |
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) | 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 (Yeadon) | RAF Yeadon | MRPU, station in Home Command |
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 | |
Joint School of Photographic Interpretation | RAF Brampton | |
No 7010 Reserve Flight | RAF Brampton | |
C & M Party | RAF Cottesmore | |
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 |
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/Canberra |
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 | |
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 | |
Comberton Wood | Bassingbourn | |
Daventry | Gaydon | |
Deenethorpe | Wittering | |
Desborough | Wittering | |
Donna Nook | Binbrook | |
Eye | Honington | |
Fiskerton | Scampton | |
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 | |
Pulham | Honington | |
Sandtoft | Lindholme | |
Skellingthorpe | Waddington | |
South Witham | Cottesmore | |
Spanhoe | Cottesmore | |
Spilsby | Coningsby | |
Steeple Morden | Bassingbourn | |
Sutton Bridge | Marham | |
Warboys | Upwood | |
Wickenby | Hemswell | |
Witchford | Wyton | |
Woolfox Lodge | Cottesmore |
Source - SD161 (210th Edition) - March 1958
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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