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 | |
No 459 Signals Unit (Camp Hill North) | Camp Hill North | |
Chesil Beach Range Unit | Chesil Bank | |
No 217 Signals Unit (Chesil Bank) | Chesil Bank | |
No 999 Signals Unit | Collier Law | |
No 112 Signals Unit (Halton Wood) | Halton Wood | |
No 7006 Reserve Flight | RAF High Wycombe |
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 388 Signals Unit (Church Lawford) | RAF Church Lawford | MRPU, station in Maintenance Command |
RAF Station Coningsby | ||
RAF Station Driffield | ||
No 721 Signals Unit (Feltwell) | RAF Feltwell | Station in No 3 Group |
RAF Station Finningley | ||
No 18 Sqn | RAF Finningley | Valiant/Canberra |
No 101 Sqn | RAF Finningley | Vulcan |
No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Finningley | Anson/Chipmunk |
RAF Station Hemswell | ||
No 97 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Thor (SM) |
Bomber Command Modification Centre | RAF Hemswell | Canberra |
No 243 Signals Unit (Jurby) | Jurby | Station in TTC |
Bomber Command Bombing School | RAF Lindholme | Lincoln/Varsity |
RAF Hospital | RAF Nocton Hall | |
No 7014 Reserve Flight | RAF Nocton Hall | |
No 7820 Reserve Flight | RAF Nocton Hall | |
No 735 Signals Unit (Ouston) | RAF Ouston | Station in Fighter Command |
RAF Station Scampton | ||
No 617 Sqn | RAF Scampton | Vulcan |
RAF Station Sturgate | ||
No 149 Signals Unit (Theddlethorpe) | Theddlethorpe | |
RAF Station Upwood | ||
No 35 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Canberra |
No 50/40 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Canberra |
No 76 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 53 Signals Unit (Yeadon) | RAF Yeadon | MRPU, station in FTC |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Alconbury | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Bentwaters | Administered by the USAF | |
RAF Station Woodbridge | Satellite, Bentwaters | |
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 | |
RAF Station Brize Norton | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Bruntingthorpe | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Chelveston | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Cottesmore | ||
No 10 Sqn | RAF Cottesmore | Victor |
No 15 Sqn | RAF Cottesmore | Victor |
RAF Station Fairford | Administered by USAF | |
RAF Station Feltwell | ||
No 77 Sqn | RAF Feltwell | Thor (SM) |
No 232 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Gaydon | Valiant/Canberra |
No 7013 Reserve Flight | RAF Gaydon | |
RAF Station Greenham Common | Administered by USAF | |
No 884 Signals Unit (Holbeach) | Holbeach | |
RAF Station Honington | ||
No 7 Sqn | RAF Honington | Valiant |
No 57 Sqn | RAF Honington | Victor |
No 90 Sqn | RAF Honington | Valiant |
RAF Station Lakenheath | Administered by USAF | |
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 | |
RAF Station Molesworth | Administered by USAF | |
C & M Party | RAF North Luffenham | |
RAF Station Sculthorpe | Administered by USAF | |
C & M Party | RAF Shepherd's Grove | |
RAF Station Tuddenham | ||
RAF Station Upper Heyford | Administered by USAF | |
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 | |
RAF Station Wyton | ||
No 58 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Canberra |
No 543 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Valiant |
Radar Reconnaissance Flight | RAF Wyton | Victor |
Bomber Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Bardney | Waddington | |
Barford St John | Upper Heyford | |
Barkway (Domestic Site) | Bassingbourn | |
Boston | Coningsby | |
Caistor | Binbrook | |
Carnaby | Driffield | |
Catfoss | Driffield | |
Coleby Grange | Waddington | |
Comberton Wood | Bassingbourn | |
Cottam | Driffield | |
Croughton | Upper Heyford | |
Daventry | Gaydon | |
Desborough | Wittering | |
Donna Nook | Binbrook | |
Dunholme Lodge | Scampton | |
East Kirkby | Coningsby | |
Fiskerton | Scampton | |
Goxhill | Binbrook | |
Gransden Lodge | Bassingbourn | |
Honiley | Gaydon | |
Husbands Bosworth | North Luffenham | |
Immingham | Binbrook | |
Kelstern | Binbrook | |
Kimbolton | Wyton | |
Lord's Bridge | Bassingbourn | |
Ludford Magna | Hemswell | |
Market Deeping (MF/DF) | Wittering | |
Market Harborough | Grafton Underwood | |
Melton Mowbray | Cottesmore | |
Mendlesham | Honington | |
Mepal | Upwood | |
Methwold | Feltwell | |
North Killingholme | Binbrook | |
North Pickenham | Feltwell | |
North Witham | Cottesmore | |
Polebrook | Upwood | |
Pulham | Honington | |
Skellingthorpe | Waddington | |
South Witham | Cottesmore | |
Spilsby | Coningsby | |
Staxton Wold | Driffield | |
Sutton Bridge | Marham | |
Warboys | Upwood | |
Wickenby | Hemswell | |
Witchford | Wyton | |
Woodhall Spa | Coningsby | |
Woolfox Lodge | Cottesmore |
Source - SD161 (224th Edition) - May 1959
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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