Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Signals Command - January 1959

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 635 Signals Unit (Barkway)	Barkway	GEE Monitor
C & M Party	RAF Bishopbriggs
RAF Station Cheadle No 219 Signals Unit (Kinnaber)	Stoke on Trent Kinnaber	Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
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
No 7913 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
No 8 (Addu Atoll) Radio Fitting Party	RAF Henlow
No 10 (Aden) 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)
RAF Station Medmenham
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
Eastern Signals Centre	Newmarket
No 7909 Reserve Flight	Newmarket
RAF Station Norton
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Norton
No 585 Signals Unit (Oxenhope Moor)	Oxenhope Moor
RAF Station Pucklechurch
No 323 Signals Unit (St Twynnells)	St Twynnells
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
RAF Station Tangmere
No 115 Sqn	RAF Tangmere	Varsity/Hastings
No 245 Sqn	RAF Tangmere	Canberra/Varsity
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn	RAF Tangmere
South East Signals Centre	RAF Uxbridge	Station in TTC
Central Signals Establishment	RAF Watton	Lincoln
No 51 Sqn	RAF Watton	Canberra/Comet
No 407 Signals Unit (Worth Matravers)	Worth Matravers	GEE Slave & Monitor
RAF Station Wythall
HQ, No 7 RAF Police District	RAF Wythall	Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 7914 (Misc) Reserve Flight	RAF Wythall	Functionally controlled by AM (DPS (PM))

Central Signals Area

HQ - Stanbridge

Signals Command, Inactive Stations

 

Inactive Station	Parent Station	Status
Deopham Green	Watton
Filton	Pucklechurch
Marston Montgomery	Cheadle
Mere Branston (MF/DF)	Digby
Poling	Tangmere
Shipdham	Watton

Source - SD161 (220th Edition) - January 1959

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