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Coastal Command - June 1959


[No 18 Group | No 19 Group | RAF Gibraltar | Maritime HQ | Inactive Stations]

Command HQ - RAF Northwood, Middlesex

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Air/Sea Warfare Development Unit RAF Ballykelly Shackleton/Sycamore, station in No 18 Group
Coastal Command Communication Flight RAF Bovingdon Station in Fighter Command
RAF Element, Joint Anti-Submarine School Londonderry Shackleton
No 7301 Reserve Flight RAF Northwood  
RAF Element, HQ Allied Forces Northern Europe/Allied Air Forces Northern Europe Oslo (Norway) Functionally controlled by SHAPE

No 18 (Reconnaissance) Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Aldergrove    
No 202 Sqn RAF Aldergrove Hastings
No 7312 Reserve Flight RAF Aldergrove  
No 1100 Marine Craft Unit Alness  
RAF Station Ballykelly    
No 203 Sqn RAF Ballykelly Shackleton
No 204 Sqn RAF Ballykelly Shackleton
No 210 Sqn RAF Ballykelly Shackleton
No 7313 Reserve Flight RAF Ballykelly  
No 1106 Marine Craft Unit Drummore  
No 1113 Marine Craft Unit Holyhead  
RAF Station Kinloss    
No 120 Sqn RAF Aldergrove Shackleton
Maritime Operational Training Unit RAF Kinloss Shackleton
No 7352 Reserve Flight RAF Kinloss  
No 275 Sqn RAF Leconfield Sycamore, station in Fighter Command
No 18 Group Communication Flt RAF Leuchars Anson/Dakota, station in Fighter Command
HQ, No 18 Group RAF Pitreavie Castle  
No 7311 Reserve Flight RAF Pitreavie Castle  
No 1114 Marine Craft Unit Ramsey  

 

No 19 (Reconnaissance) Group

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 1102 Marine Craft Unit Falmouth  
C & M Party Hope Cove  
No 1111 Marine Craft Unit Lyme Regis  
HQ, No 19 Group RAF Mount Batten  
Marine Craft Training School RAF Mount Batten  
School of Search. Survival & Rescue RAF Mount Batten  
No 7351 Reserve Flight RAF Mount Batten  
No 1107 Marine Craft Unit Newhaven  
No 19 Group Communication Flt Roborough (MTCA) Anson/Chipmunk
RAF Station St Eval  
RAF Station St Mawgan  
No 22 Sqn RAF St Mawgan Whirlwind
No 42 Sqn RAF St Mawgan Shackleton
No 201 Sqn RAF St Mawgan Shackleton
No 206 Sqn RAF St Mawgan Shackleton
No 217 Sqn RAF St Mawgan Whirlwind
No 7353 Reserve Flight RAF St Mawgan  

 

RAF Gibraltar

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station North Front    
No 224 Sqn RAF North Front Shackleton
HQ, No 8 RAF Police District RAF North Front Functionally controlled by HQ, P & SS (UK)
No 9 (Gibraltar) Radio Fitting Party RAF North Front
AHQ Gibraltar RAF North Front

 

Maritime HQ

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Element, Maritime HQ Chatham  
No 7302 Reserve Flight Chatham  

 

Coastal Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Alness Kinloss  
Castle Archdale Ballykelly  
Collaton Cross Mount Batten  
Comber (Belfast) (M/F D/F) Aldergrove  
Dalcross Kinloss  
Drummossie Kinloss  
Faraid Head Kinloss  
Fowey Mount Batten  
Greencastle Aldergrove  
Greystones (Radar) Aldergrove  
Kilkeel (Radar) Aldergrove  
Kirkistown Aldergrove  
Murlough Bay Ballykelly  
Newford (Radar) St Mawgan  
Nutts Corner Aldergrove  
Pendeen (Radar) St Mawgan  
Rosevalley Kinloss  
St Eval St Mawgan  
St Merryn St Mawgan  
Scousborough (GEE) Kinloss  
Sennen St Mawgan  
Sennen (Domestic Site) St Mawgan  
Stornoway (Radar) Kinloss  
Sumburgh (M/F D/F) Kinloss  
Tain Kinloss  
Treleaver St Mawgan  
Trerew St Mawgan  
West Prawle (Radar) HQ (Unit) No 19 Group  
Wick (Radar) Kinloss  

Source - SD161 (225th Edition) - June 1959

[No 18 Group | No 19 Group | RAF Gibraltar | Maritime HQ | Inactive Stations]

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