Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
[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 | |
Bloodhound Mk 2 Firing Unit | Aberporth | |
Fighter Command Missile Practice Camp | RAF Valley | Station in FTC, satellite, Aberporth |
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) |
No 9 Signals Unit | RAF Rattlesden | |
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 | |
Control and Reporting Evaluation Team | RAF Stanmore Park | Functionally controlled by MOD (DDTO (RAF)) |
RAF Station West Drayton | ||
RAF Station Wethersfield | Administered by the USAF | |
No 112 Sqn | RAF Woodhall Spa | Bloodhound (SAM) |
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 |
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 |
Satellite, Coltishall | RAF Trimingham | |
RAF Station Neatishead | Master Radar Station | |
HQ, No 12 (East Anglian) Sector | RAF Neatishead | |
RAF Station Wattisham | ||
No 56 Sqn | RAF Wattisham | Lightning |
No 111 Sqn | RAF Wattisham | Lightning |
Unit | Location | Status |
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 | Lightning |
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 |
HQ, Military Air Traffic Operations | RAF Uxbridge | Functionally controlled by NATCS |
Military Air Traffic Operations Northern Region | RAF Lindholme | Station in Bomber Command |
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit | RAF Lindholme | Station in Bomber Command |
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 Centre (Preston) | Preston (Barton Hall) | MoA |
Air Traffic Control Centre | Prestwick (MoA) | |
Military Air Traffic Operations Southern Region | RAF Uxbridge | Station in TTC |
Air Traffic Control Centre (Uxbridge) | RAF Uxbridge | Station in TTC |
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Heathrow) | London Airport (Heathrow) | MoA |
MATO C & M Party | RAF North Luffenham | |
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Sopley) | RAF Sopley | |
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Wattisham) | RAF Wattisham | |
MATO C & M Party | RAF Watton |
Fighter Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Carnaby | Leconfield | |
Catfoss | Leconfield | |
Dengie Flats (Range) | Wattisham | |
Full Sutton | Leconfield | |
Great Bromley (Radar) | Wattisham | |
Hill Head | Buchan | |
Hopton | Coltishall | |
Horsham St Faith (G) | Coltishall | |
Ludford Magna | Binbrook | |
Pocklington (G) | Leconfield | |
St Twynnells | Aberporth | |
Stoke Holy Cross | Coltishall |
Married Quarters (at Detached sites)
Married Quarters | Parenting Unit |
Anstruther | Leuchars |
Beachy Head | Kenley |
Bempton | Patrington |
Bridlington | Leconfield |
Carnaby | Leconfield |
Catfoss | Leconfield |
Crosslaw | Boulmer |
Driffield | Leconfield |
Dundee | Leuchars |
Dunkeld | Leuchars |
Dyce | Buchan |
Edzell | Leuchars |
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 - SD161/1965(2) - April 1965
[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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