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Fighter Command - October 1966


[Command HQ | HQ Military Air Traffic Operations  | Inactive Stations | Married Quarters]

Command HQ - RAF Stanmore, Middlesex

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Station HQ Establishment RAF Aberporth  
Bloodhound Mk 2 Firing Unit RAF Aberporth  
Station HQ Establishment RAF Bawdsey Satellite Radar Station
School of Control and Reporting RAF Bawdsey  
HQ Fighter Command RAF Bentley Priory  
Air Defence Operations Centre RAF Bentley Priory  
HQ, Royal Observer Corps RAF Bentley Priory  
Control and Reporting Evaluation Team RAF Bentley Priory Functionally controlled by MOD (DDTO (RAF))
Station HQ Establishment RAF Binbrook  
No 5 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lightning
No 85 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
Station HQ Establishment RAF Boulmer Master Radar Station
Station HQ Establishment RAF Buchan Master Radar Station
No 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Chivenor Hunter
Satellite, Chivenor RAF Pembrey  
No 226 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Coltishall Lightning
Satellite, Coltishall RAF Trimingham  
Station HQ Establishment RAF Coningsby  
Satellite, Coningsby RAF Wainfleet  
C & M Party RAF Driffield  
RAF Liaison Party RAF Edzell Administered by the USAF
RAF Hospital RAF Ely  
Station HQ Establishment RAF Fylingdales  
No 405 Signals Unit RAF Hartland Point  
Station HQ Establishment RAF Leuchars
No 23 Sqn RAF Leuchars Lightning
No 74 Sqn RAF Leuchars Lightning
No 228 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Leuchars Canberra/Javelin
Station HQ Establishment RAF Neatishead Master Radar Station
Station HQ Establishment RAF North Coates  
No 17 Joint Services Trials Unit RAF North Coates Functionally controlled by ACAS (OR)
No 25 Sqn RAF North Coates Bloodhound (SAM)
Station HQ Establishment RAF Patrington Group Control Centre/Master Radar Station
Satellite, Patrington RAF Bempton  
Satellite, Patrington RAF Staxton Wold  
No 1 Air Control Centre RAF Rattlesden  
No 91 Signals Unit RAF Saxa Vord Satellite Radar Station
No 23B Modification Party RAF Sealand Station in Maintenance Command
HQ (Unit) Fighter Command RAF Stanmore Park  
No 7131 Reserve Flight RAF Stanmore Park  
Fighter Command Missile Practice Camp RAF Valley Station in FTC, satellite, Aberporth
Station HQ Establishment RAF Wattisham  
No 56 Sqn RAF Wattisham Lightning
No 111 Sqn RAF Wattisham Lightning
RAF Support Unit, Weeton AD Weeton Camp  
Station HQ Establishment RAF West Drayton  
No 41 Sqn RAF West Raynham Bloodhound (SAM), station in Transport Command
RAF Liaison Party RAF Wethersfield Administered by the USAF
No 112 Sqn RAF Woodhall Spa Bloodhound (SAM)

 

HQ Military Air Traffic Operations

All Functionally controlled by NATCS

Unit Location Status
Air Traffic Control Centre MOA Barton Hall, Preston  
Ulster Radar RAF Bishop's Court  
Border Radar RAF Boulmer  
Military Air Traffic Operations Northern Region RAF Lindholme Station in Bomber Command
Northern Radar RAF Lindholme Station in Bomber Command
Heathrow RAF Radar BAA London Airport  
Midland Radar RAF North Luffenham Station in Signals Command
Air Traffic Control Centre BAA Prestwick  
Southern Radar RAF Sopley  
HQ, Military Air Traffic Operations RAF Uxbridge , station in TTC
Military Air Traffic Operations Southern Region RAF Uxbridge Station in TTC
Air Traffic Control Centre RAF Uxbridge Station in TTC
Eastern Radar RAF Watton Station in Signals Command

Fighter Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Bardney Coningsby  
Donna Nook Coningsby  
East Kirkby Coningsby  
Great Bromley (Radar) Wattisham  
Hill Head Buchan  
Hopton Coltishall  
Horsham St Faith (G) Coltishall  
St Twynnells Aberporth  
Spilsby Coningsby  
Stoke Holy Cross Coltishall  
Theddlethorpe Coningsby  

 

Married Quarters (at Detached sites)

 
Married Quarters Parenting Unit
Anstruther Leuchars
Bardney Coningsby
Bempton Patrington
Ballykinla (Airmen's quarters) Bishop's Court
Crosslaw Boulmer
Dundee Leuchars
Dunkeld Leuchars
Dyce Buchan
Edzell Leuchars
Felixstowe Bawdsey
Goldsborough Fylingdales
Grimsby Binbrook
Horsham St Faith Coltishall
Immingham Binbrook
Ludford Magna Binbrook
Martlesham Heath Wattisham
Pembrey Aberporth
Scone Leuchars
Staxton Wold Bempton
Stenigot (Airmen's quarters) Binbrook
Sutton-on-Hull Patrington
Trimingham Coltishall
Ventnor Sopley
Weybourne Coltishall

Source - SD161/1966(4) - October 1966

[Command HQ | HQ Military Air Traffic Operations  | Inactive Stations | Married Quarters]

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