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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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Bomber Command - September 1959
[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 999 Signals Unit | Collier Law | |
| 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 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 | ||
| No 12 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| No 7016 Reserve Flight | RAF Coningsby | |
| RAF Station Driffield | ||
| Satellite, Driffield | RAF Full Sutton | |
| 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 |
| No 53 Signals Unit | RAF Haydock | Station in Signals Command |
| RAF Station Hemswell | ||
| No 97 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Thor (SM) |
| Bomber Command Modification Centre | RAF Hemswell | Canberra |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| No 243 Signals Unit (Jurby) | Jurby | Station in TTC |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| RAF Station 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 | |
| Breighton | Driffield | |
| Caistor | Binbrook | |
| Carnaby | Driffield | |
| Catfoss | Driffield | |
| Coleby Grange | Waddington | |
| Comberton Wood | Bassingbourn | |
| Cottam | Driffield | |
| Croughton | Upper Heyford | |
| Daventry | Gaydon | |
| 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 | |
| Portland | Chesil Bank | |
| Pulham | Honington | |
| Skellingthorpe | Waddington | |
| Spilsby | Coningsby | |
| Staxton Wold | Driffield | |
| Sutton Bridge | Marham | |
| Warboys | Upwood | |
| Wickenby | Hemswell | |
| Witchford | Wyton | |
| Woodhall Spa | Coningsby | |
| Woolfox Lodge | Cottesmore |
Source - SD161 (228th Edition) - September 1959
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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