Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

No 90 (Signals) Group - May 1958

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
RAF Station Bishopbriggs
RAF Station Cheadle No 36 Signals Unit (Highbridge) No 219 Signals Unit (Kinnaber)	Stoke on Trent Highbridge Kinnaber	-
RAF Station Chigwell
Ground Radio Calibration Unit	RAF Chigwell
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Chigwell
RAF Station Digby
No 399 Signals Unit	RAF Digby	Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 591 Signals Unit	RAF Digby
No 7907 Reserve Flight	RAF Digby
Satellite, RAF Digby	Mere Branston
Meteorological Communications Centre	Dunstable
Northern Ireland (Dundonald) Signals Centre	RAF Edenmore	Station in Fighter Command
Gloucester Telecommunications Office	RAF Gloucester	Station in Home Command
No 7906 Reserve Flight	RAF Gloucester
South West Signals Centre	Hawthorn
No 7904 Reserve Flight	Hawthorn
North-West Signals Centre	Haydock
No 7902 Reserve Flight	Haydock
Civilian Aerial Erectors' Unit	RAF Hendon	Station in Home Command
Radio Engineering Unit	RAF Henlow	Station in TTC
Radio Standards Centre	RAF Henlow
No 8 (Addu Atoll) Radio Fitting Party	RAF Henlow
Special Signals Unit	RAF Kidbrooke	Station in Home Command
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Kinloss	Station in Coastal Command
RAF Signals Centre (London)	London (Whitehall Gardens)
No 7905 Reserve Flight	London (Whitehall Gardens)
HQ, No 90 (Signals) Group	RAF Medmenham	Directly responsible to the Air Ministry
Radio Introduction Unit	RAF Medmenham	Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng)
Inspectorate of Radio Services	RAF Medmenham	Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (S))
AM Book Production and Distribution Centre	RAF Medmenham
No 7911 Reserve Flight	RAF Medmenham
RAF Station Medmenham: controlling: -
No 635 Signals Unit (Barkway)	Barkway	GEE Monitor
No 561 Signals Unit (Folly)	Folly	GEE Slave
No 585 Signals Unit (Oxenhope Moor)	Oxenhope Moor
No 428 Signals Unit (Sennen)	Sennen	GEE Slave
No 899 Signals Unit (Sharpitor)	Sharpitor	GEE Master
No 313 Signals Unit (Sparsholt Firs)	Sparsholt Firs
No 4 Signals Unit (Stenigot)	Stenigot	GEE Slave
No 345 Signals Unit (Swingate)	Swingate	GEE
No 564 Signals Unit (Trerew)	Trerew	GEE Monitor
No 407 Signals Unit (Worth Matravers)	Worth Matravers	GEE Slave & Monitor
Eastern Signals Centre	Newmarket
No 7909 Reserve Flight	Newmarket
RAF Station Norton
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Norton
RAF Station Pucklechurch
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Pucklechurch
South East Signals Centre	RAF Uxbridge	Station in TTC
Central Signals Establishment	RAF Watton	Lincoln
No 116 Sqn	RAF Watton	Varsity/Hastings
No 192 Sqn	RAF Watton	Canberra/Comet
No 527 Sqn	RAF Watton	Canberra/Varsity
RAF Station Wythall
HQ, No 7 RAF Police District	RAF Wythall	Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)

Central Signals Area

HQ - Stanbridge

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Deopham Green	Watton
Grangemouth	Bishopbriggs
Hayscastle Cross	Folly
Marston Montgomery	Cheadle
Mere Branston (MF/DF)	Digby
Shipdham	Watton

Source - SD161 (212th Edition) - May 1958

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

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