Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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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