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Fighter Command - 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]

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)

 

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
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

 

No 13 (Scottish) Sector

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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