Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Transport Command - March 1958

[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 Abingdon	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	Meteor/Vampire
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 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
Metropolitan Communication Sqn	RAF Northolt	Anson/Chipmunk
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 Parachute Servicing Unit	RAF Upper Heyford	Station in Home Command

Transport Command, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Chalgrove	Benson
Nuneham Park	Abingdon
Shellingford	Abingdon

Source - SD161 (210th Edition) - March 1958

County names used are those in use at the time

[Inactive Stations]

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