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Fighter Command - October 1964


[Command HQ | No 11 (Northern) Sector | No 12 (East Anglian) Sector | No 13 (|Scottish) Sector | HQ Military Air Traffic Operations  | Inactive Stations | Married Quarters]

Command HQ - RAF Stanmore, Middlesex

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Guided Weapons Range Unit Aberporth  
Fighter Command Missile Practice Camp Aberporth  
Satellite, Aberporth RAF Valley Station in FTC
Gunnery Range RAF Pembrey Satellite, Aberporth
No 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Chivenor Hunter
RAF Station Edzell   Administered by the USAF
RAF Hospital Ely  
RAF Station Fylingdales    
No 405 Signals Unit (Hartland Point) Hartland Point  
RAF Station North Coates    
No 17 Joint Services Trials Unit RAF North Coates Functionally controlled by ACAS (OR)
No 25 Sqn RAF North Coates Bloodhound (SAM)
HQ Fighter Command RAF Stanmore  
Air Defence Operations Centre RAF Stanmore  
HQ, Royal Observer Corps RAF Stanmore  
HQ Fighter Command (Unit) RAF Stanmore Park  
No 7131 (Misc) Reserve Flight RAF Stanmore Park  
MATO C & M Party RAF Watton Station in Signals Command
RAF Station Wethersfield   Administered by the USAF

 

No 11 (Northern) Sector

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Binbrook    
No 64 Sqn RAF Binbrook Javelin
No 85 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
Central Fighter Establishment RAF Binbrook Hunter/Lightning/Meteor
C & M Party RAF Driffield  
RAF Station Leconfield    
HQ, No 11 (Northern) Sector RAF Leconfield  
No 19 Sqn RAF Leconfield Lightning
No 92 Sqn RAF Leconfield Lightning
RAF Station Patrington   Group Control Centre/Master Radar Station
Satellite, Patrington Bempton  
Satellite, Patrington Staxton Wold  

 

No 12 (East Anglian) Sector

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Bawdsey   Group Control Centre
School of Control and Reporting RAF Bawdsey  
No 226 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Coltishall Lightning
RAF Station Neatishead   Master Radar Station
HQ, No 12 (East Anglian) Sector RAF Neatishead  
Fighter Command C & M Party RAF North Luffenham Station in Signals Command
C & M Party RAF Trimingham  
C & M Party RAF Wartling  
RAF Station Wattisham    
No 56 Sqn RAF Wattisham Lightning
No 111 Sqn RAF Wattisham Lightning

 

No 13 (Scottish) Sector

Unit Location Status
No 71 Signals Unit (Aird Uig) Aird Uig Satellite Radar Station
RAF Station Boulmer   Master Radar Station
HQ, No 13 (Scottish) Sector RAF Boulmer  
RAF Station Buchan   Master Radar Station
RAF Station Inverbervie   Administered by the USAF
RAF Station Leuchars  
No 23 Sqn RAF Leuchars Javelin
No 74 Sqn RAF Leuchars Lightning
No 7101 Reserve Flight RAF Leuchars  
No 91 Signals Unit Saxa Vord Satellite Radar Station

 

HQ Military Air Traffic Operations

Unit Location Status
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Bishop's Court) RAF Bishop's Court  
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit RAF Boulmer  
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Hack Green) Hack Green  
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit RAF Lindholme Functionally controlled by MATO, station in Bomber Command
Air Traffic Control Centre Prestwick (MoA)  
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Sopley) RAF Sopley  
HQ, Military Air Traffic Operations Stanmore - Bentley Priory Functionally controlled by NATCS
Southern Regional Air Traffic Service Centre (Uxbridge) RAF Uxbridge Station in TTC
North Regional Air Traffic Service Centre RAF Weeton Station in TTC
Satellite, Weeton Barton Hall  

Fighter Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Caistor Binbrook  
Carnaby Leconfield  
Catfoss Leconfield  
Dengie Flats (Range) Wattisham  
Framlingham Bawdsey  
Full Sutton Leconfield  
Great Bromley (Radar) Wattisham  
Hill Head Buchan  
Hopton Coltishall  
Horsham St Faith (G) Coltishall  
Ludford Magna Binbrook  
Pocklington Leconfield  
Rattlesden Wattisham  
St Twynnells Aberporth  
Stoke Holy Cross Coltishall  
West Drayton Stanmore Park  

 

Married Quarters

 
Married Quarters Parenting Unit
Anstruther Leuchars
Beachy Head Wartling
Bridlington Leconfield
Carnaby Leconfield
Catfoss Leconfield
Crosslaw Boulmer
Driffield Leconfield
Dundee Leuchars
Dunkeld Leuchars
Dyce Buchan
Edzell Leuchars
Fairlight Wartling
Felixstowe Bawdsey
Full Sutton Leconfield
Goldsborough Fylingdales
Grimsby Binbrook
Horsham St Faith Coltishall
Immingham Binbrook
Inverbervie Buchan
Ludford Magna Binbrook
Martlesham Heath Wattisham
Staxton Wold Bempton
Stenigot Binbrook
Sutton-on-Hull Patrington
Trimingham Coltishall
Ventnor Sopley
Weybourne Coltishall

Source - SD161/1964(4) - October 1964

[Command HQ | No 11 (Northern) Sector | No 12 (East Anglian) Sector | No 13 (|Scottish) Sector | HQ Military Air Traffic Operations  | Inactive Stations | Married Quarters]

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