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RAF Salalah

RAF Unit Salalah

Location

Country: - Oman

Lat/Long: 17:02:17N 54:05:32E

Height Above Sea Level: 73 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

HQ British Forces Aden (1943)

Closed - 31 Mar 1977

Notes

RAF Unit, Salalah's function: -

to provide signals communications
to provide facilities for aircraft operating at Salalah on a detached basis and for aircraft using the South Arabian Reinforcement Route.

On 1 February 1951 its policy was revised as follows to provide: -

An airfield together with limited staging facilities for RAF supply aircraft and Civil aircraft.
Care and Maintenance of buildings.

On 1 September 1951 its policy was further revised as follows: -

A non self-accounting unit under the control of HQ British Forces in Aden, responsible for the following: -

Dawn to dusk airfield services, including control, signals and navigational flying aids; also fire and crash services.
Staging Post facilities, for RAF, foreign military and civil aircraft.
First line servicing for RAF and foreign military aircraft.
Refuelling for civil aircraft.
Care and maintenance of buildings.

Administrative services beyond unit capacity, including pay and equipment accounting will be provided by RAF Khomaksar.

It is now Salalah Airport and the second busiest airport in Oman.

Main units: -

Detachments, 8 Sqn (Feb 1927 - xxx 1937, Sep 1942 - Nov 1945)

No 32 Staging Post (8 Mar - 11 Nov 1943)

RAF Unit Salalah (11 Nov 1943 - xx xxx xxxxx)

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RAF Salbani

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Main units (continued): -

No 135 Repair & Salvage Unit (xx - xx Jan 1943, 1 Dec 1943 - 15 Mar 1944, Jun 1944 - 21 Nov 1945)

No 2 Repair & Salvage Section (1 Apr - 1 Dec 1943)

No 8 Care & Maintenance Party (7 May - Jul 1943)

82 Sqn (23 May - 9 Aug 1943)

Bengal Calibration Flt (4 Jul - 18 Aug 1943)

No 1584 Heavy Bomber Conversion Flt (23 Jul - 9 Nov 1943)

HQ, No 184 Wing (23 Jul - 25 Nov 1943, 10 Jan 1944 - 20 Nov 1945)

355 Sqn (18 Aug 1943 - 3 Jan 1946, 3 Apr - 1 Jun 1946)

No 1584 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit (9 Nov 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

356 Sqn (15 Jan 1944 - 24 Jul 1945)

No 1673 Heavy Conversion Unit (1 Feb - 13 Apr 1944)

No 23 Armament Practice Camp (10 Mar - 3 Sep 1944)

No 138 Repair & Salvage Unit (15 Nov 1945 - 7 Jul 1946)

9 Sqn (19 Jan - 19 Apr 1946)

No 7009 Servicing Echelon (15 Mar – 15 May 1946)

Location

Country: - India

Lat/Long: 22:36:36N 87:18:00E

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

SHQ Opened - 7 Aug 1942

SHQ Closed - 30 Sep 1942

No 221 Group (7 Aug 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ Re-opened - 21 Nov 1945

No 228 Group (21 Nov 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ disbanded - 30 Jun 1946

Notes

Main Units: -

Heavy Bomber Conversion Flt/Unit (1 Sep 1942 - 23 Jul 1943)

159 Sqn (27 Sep 1942 - 24 Oct 1943, 2 Oct 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

No 90 Air Stores Park (22 Oct 1942 - Feb 1943)

No 123 Repair & Salvage Unit (5 Nov 1942 - 1 Apr 1943)

160 Sqn (22 Nov 1942 - 19 Feb 1943)

Detachments**

82 Sqn (Apr - May 1943)

134 Sqn (May - Aug 1944

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RAF Saltby

No Badge authorised	Main units: - Unbuilt Satellite, RAF Cottesmore (xx xxx - xx xxx 1942) No 14 OTU RLG (1 Aug 1941 - 10 Sep 1943) Satellite, RAF Cottesmore (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Jul 1943) No 32 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section (Aug 1943 - Mar 1944) Satellite, RAF Bottesford (10 Sep 1943 - xx xxx xxxx) 314th TCG USAAF: (Feb 44 - 28 Feb 1945): - 32nd TCS 50th TCS 61st TCS 62nd TCS Sub-station, No 72 Base (7 Oct 1944 - 20 Mar 1945) No 1665 HCU (26 Mar - 1 Aug 1945) Sub-site, No 216 Maintenance Unit (12 Dec 1945 - 10 Sep 1948) Sub-site, No 255 Maintenance Unit (12 Dec 1945 - 10 Sep 1948) Sub-site, No 256 Maintenance Unit (12 Dec 1945 - 10 Sep 1948)
Location County: - Leicestershire Lat/Long: 52:49:45N 00:42:30W Grid Ref: SK868265/130 Height above sea level: 475 ft
Operational Control: - Opened - 1942 No 92 Group (11 May 1942 - 10 Sep 1943) C & M (15 Jul - 10 Sep 1943) No 5 Group (10 Sep - 18 Nov 1943) IX Troop Carrier Command Substitution Unit (18 Nov 1943 - 7 Oct 1944) (C & M) No 7 Group (7 Oct 1944 - 20 Mar 1945) Fighter Command (20 Mar 1945 - xx xx xxxx) Transport Command (xx xxx xxxx - 12 Dec 1945) Maintenance Command (12 Dec 1945 - 10 Sep 1948) Closed - 10 Sep 1948 From 10 September 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF South Witham, but was transferred to RAF Spitalgate in Technical Training Command on 17 October 1949.
Notes
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RAF Sambre

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 3 Coast Defence Flight IAFVR det (12 Nov 1941 - 28 Jan 1942)

No 102 Coast Defence Flight IAFVR det (17 Apr - 1 Dec 1942)

No 88 Equipment Park (2 Sep - 29 Dec 1943)

No 5 Base Signals Unit (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 88 Air Stores Park (Equipment Park) (29 Dec 1943 - 27 Nov 1944)

20 Sqn det (Sep - Dec 1944)

No 1344 Flight (Feb - Jun 1945)

No 1583 Calibration Flight (Aug - xxx 1945)

No 182 Wing (13 Jun - 1 Aug 1945)

Location

Country: - India

Lat/Long:

Height above sea level: ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

SHQ opened - xx xxx xxxx

SHQ closed - xx xxx 1943

Notes.

SHQ disbanded into No 5 Base Signals Unit.

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RAF Sandtoft

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Sub Station, No 11 Base (10 Dec 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (17 Feb 1944 - 9 Nov 1945)

No 2797 Sqn, RAF Regiment (23 Mar - xx xxx 1944)

No 1 Group Aircrew School (4 Apr - xx Nov 1944)

Sub Station, No 71 Base (1 Nov 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

Detachment - No 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit (Aug - 10 Nov 1945)

Sub-site, No 35 Maintenance Unit (27 Dec 1945 - 11 Feb 1946)

Sub-site, No 61 Maintenance Unit (11 Feb 1946 - 4 Aug 1947)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 52:49:45N 00:42:30W

Grid Ref - SK750075

Height Above Sea Level - 8 ft

Railway Stations

Crowle (passenger) LNER
Sandtoft Goods (goods) LMS & LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 10 Dec 1944

No 1 Group (10 Dec 1944 - 5 Nov 1944)

No 7 Group (5 Nov 1944 - 9 Nov 1945)

Care & Maintenance (10 Nov - 27 Dec 1945)

Maintenance Command (27 Dec 1945 - 14 Aug 1947)

Bomber Command (14 Aug 1947 - 15 Dec 1949

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Bomber Command, parented by RAF Lindholme, which it continued to do when transferred to TTC.

TTC (15 Dec 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1955

Notes

Originally requisitioned as the site for a bomber operational station to be linked with Lindholme.

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RAF Sandwich

RAF Sandwich badge

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Closed -

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 51:16:37N 01:20:45E Approx

Grid Ref - TR335585

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Notes

Main units: -

No 3500 Air Defence Unit, RAuxAF (8 Jan 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 491 Signals Unit (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Aerial photo of the general area on Google Maps, Subterranea Britannica website,

RAF Santa Cruz

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 15 Care & Maintenance Party (7 May - xxx 1943)

No 3205 Servicing Commando (20 Jun - 10 Sep 1945)

Aircraft Erection Unit (India) (30 Jun - 9 Sep 1943)

No 227 Group Communication Flt (Aug - 8 Oct 1943)

No 304 Maintenance Unit (9 Sep - 28 Oct 1943)

203 Sqn (15 Nov 1943 - 9 Oct 1944)

Reinforcement Staging Post (1 Mar - 1 Sep 1944)

No 12 Civil Maintenance Unit (30 Mar 1944 - 15 Dec 1945)

Ferry Flt, Santa Cruz (7 May 1944 - 18 Jun 1945)

No 56 Reinforcement Staging Post (1 Sep 1944 - 20 Aug 1946)

No 1588 Heavy Freight Flt (10 Oct 1945 - 20 May 1946)

No 22 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit ( 18 Feb 1946 - 1 Apr 1947)

Location

Country: - India

Lat/Long: 19:05:19N 72:52:05E

Height Above Sea Level: 37 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 11 Sep 1943

No 227 Group (11 Sep 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ disbanded - 1 Oct 1946

Notes

It is now known as Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport

Main Units: -

Temporary Aircraft Assembly Unit (10 Nov 1942 - 30 Jun 1943)s

Detachments**

217 Sqn (Apr 1943 - Apr 1944)

No 138 Repair & Salvage Unit (xxx 1944 - xxx 1945)

244 Sqn (Mar 1944 - May 1945)

No 10 Ferry Unit (Mar - Jun 1945)

159 Sqn (Oct 1945 - Jun 1946)

No 320 Maintenance Unit (xxx 1946 - Oct 1947)

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RAF Sawbridgeworth

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

182 Sqn (7 Dec 1942 - 17 Jan 1943, 20 - 30 Jan 1943)

652 Sqn (20 Feb - 28 Mar 1943)

No 3205 Servicing Commando (8 Apr - 28 May 1943)

No 34 Wing Communication Unit (30 Jun 1943 - xxx xxxx)

No 410 Repair & Salvage Unit (1 Sep - 6 Nov 1943)

No 409 Repair & Salvage Unit (3 Sep - 10 Nov 1943)

No 3 Casualty Air Evacuation Unit (23 Sep - xxx 1943)

No 4 Casualty Air Evacuation Unit (23 Sep - xxx 1943)

63 Sqn (12 - 30 Nov 1943)

168 Sqn (12 - 30 Nov 1943)

170 Sqn (12 Nov 1943 - 15 Jan 1944

HQ, No 35 Wing (14 Nov 1943 - 3 Apr 1944)

4 Sqn (30 Nov 1943 - 3 Jan 1944, 3 Mar - 4 Apr 1944)

No 3 Concealment and Decoy Unit (1 Jan 1944 - xxx xxxx)

No 418 Air Sores Park (20 Jan - 10 Apr 1944)

No 14 Personnel Transit Centre (11 Feb - 13 Mar 1944)

HQ, No 130 Airfield (29 Feb - 4 Apr 1944)

126 Sqn (1 Mar - 22 May 1944)

268 Sqn (1 - 26 Mar 1944)

No 6126 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar – 22 May 1944)

No 6268 Servicing Echelon (22 – 26 Mar 1944)

No 6002 Servicing Echelon (24 Mar – 4 Apr 1944)

80 Sqn (24 Apr - 6 May 1944)

No 6080 Servicing Echelon (22 Apr – 5 May 1944)

Sub-site of No 3 Maintenance Unit (1 Dec 1944 - 1 May 1947)

Location

County: - Hertfordshire

Lat/Long: 51:50:08N 00:07:15E

Grid Ref - TL464178

Height Above Sea Level - 320 ft

Operational Control: -

No 71 Group (1 Dec 1940 - 1 Jun 1943)

SHQ Opened - 1 Jun 1943?

No 12 Group (1 Jun - 7 Aug 1943)

No 11 Group (C & M) ( 7 Aug 1943 - 1 Dec 1944)

Maintenance Command (1 Dec 1944 - 1 May 1947)

Station abandoned - 1 May 1947

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as an operational station with the dual function of fighter satellite and Army Co-operation aerodrome was issued in April 1941.

Main Units: -

‘B’ Flt, 2 Sqn (3 Aug - 18 Sep 1940)

239 Sqn (Sep - Dec 1940)

2 Sqn (24 Oct 1940 - 19 Jul 1941, 23 Jul - 4 Aug 1941, 10 Aug - 5 Dec 1941, 7 Dec 1941 - 3 Feb 1943, 27 Apr - 16 Jul 1943, 30 Nov 1943 - 22 Jan 1944, 28 Feb - 11 Mar 1944, 24 Mar - 4 Apr 1944)

No 770 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2770 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

No 3226 Servicing Commando (3 Jul - 2 Oct 1942, 3 - 18 Feb 1943, 11 Mar - 8 Apr 1943, 1 May - 28 Jun 1943)

No 1495 (Target Towing) Flt (8 Aug 1942 - 10 Jul 1943)

809 Sqn FAA (22 Aug - 8 Sep 1942)

809 Sqn FAA (1 - 11 Oct 1942)

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RAF Saxa Vord

Location

County: - Shetland Islands

Lat/Long: 60:49:37N 00:50:24W

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

For more details see - Members' Area

Closed - Current

Notes

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching, manned by the Navy, it had also been allocated 10cm Mk III equipment and high power transmitters.

It was re-activated as part of the post war ROTOR programme opening in early/mid 1950s

With the installation of the Type 80 equipment, the station was renamed No 91 Signals Unit on 27 September 1957, but reverted to RAF Saxa Vord in 1984.

From April 2001 it was downgraded to a Remote Radar Head (RRH) as a ADGE Reporting Centre, subordinate to RAF Buchan, but it regained Station Status, but reverted to fully-manned status on 2 April 2004. However, it closed on 4 March 2006, and much of the site was sold off. In September 2017 it was decided to re-activate the site as a RRH and it re-opened in 2019.

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RAF Scampton

Main units (continued): -

No 1518 Beam Approach Training Flt (3 Nov 1941 - 14 Jun 1943)

No 2724 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - 7 May 1942)

No 83 Conversion Flt (11 Apr - 21 Aug 1942)

No 49 Conversion Flt (16 May - 9 Nov 1942)

Air Bomber Training Flt (No 5 Group) (15 Jun - 27 Aug 1942)

57 Sqn (4 Sep 1942 - 29 Aug 1943, 2 Dec 1945 - 1 May 1946)

467 Sqn (7 - 24 Nov 1942)

'C' Flt, No 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit ( 9 Nov 1942 - 1 Jan 1943)

617 Sqn (23 Mar - 30 Aug 1943, Aug - Sep 1946, 1 May 1958 - 31 Dec 1981)

No 2774 Sqn, RAF Regiment (23 Mar - xx xxx 1944)

HQ, Scampton Base (10 May 1943 - 16 Sep 1943)

HQ, No 52 Base (16 Sep 1943 - 7 Oct 1944)

No 1690 Bomber (Defence) Training Flt (13 Jul - 27 Sep 1944)

HQ, No 15 Base (7 Oct 1944 - 20 Oct 1945)

153 Sqn (15 Oct 1944 - 28 Sep 1945)

No 1687 Bomber (Defence) Training Flt (4 Dec 1944 - 2 Apr 1945)

625 Sqn (5 Apr - 7 Oct 1945)

Combatant Training School (8 Oct 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Lincoln Service Trials Flt (26 Nov 1945 - xxx xxxx)

100 Sqn (15 Dec 1945 - 8 May 1946)

Bomber Command Instrument School (22 Jan - 15 Jun 1947)

Bomber Command Instrument Rating and Examining Flt (15 Jun 1947 - 10 Mar 1952)

28th Bomb Group, USAF (18 Jul - 18 Oct 1948)

301st Bomb Group, USAF (19 Oct 1948 - 19 Jan 1949)

No 230 Operational Conversion Unit (21 Feb 1949 - 15 Oct 1952, 8 Dec 1969 - 31 Aug 1981)

Reserve Training Sqn ( 15 Oct 1952 - xxx xxxx)

Bomber Command Bombing School (15 Oct - 15 Nov 1952)

Reserve Training Sqn (15 Oct 1952 - xxx xxxx)

10 Sqn (15 Jun 1953 - 16 May 1955)

27 Sqn (15 Jun 1953 - 31 Dec 1957, 1 Apr 1961 - 29 Mar 1972, 1 Nov 1973 - 31 Mar 1982)

18 Sqn (1 Aug 1953 - 22 May 1955)

21 Sqn (21 Sep 1953 - 1 Jun 1955)

No 18 Joint Services Trials Unit (1 Dec 1961 - 1 Aug 1964)

Bombing and Navigation Systems Development Sqn (xxx xxxx - 1 Jan 1971)

85 Sqn (30 Jul - 16 Sep 1971)

Strike Command Avionics Development and Servicing Unit (1 Dec 1971 - xxx xxxx)

Strike Command Bombing School (1 Sep 1972 - 1 Jul 1974)

35 Sqn (16 Jan 1975 - 1 Mar 1982)

No 643 Volunteer Gliding School (xxx 1982 - 29 Jun 1991)

The RAF Aerobatic Team (Red Arrows) (Nov 1982 - 20 Feb 1996, xxx xxxx - Current)

Central Flying School (19 Sep 1984 - 31 May 1995)

Joint Arms Control Implementation Group (1 Jul 1990 - 31 May 1996)

Refresher Flying Flt (xxx 1991 - xxx 1992)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 53:18:15N 00:33:00W

Grid Ref: SK965798

Height above sea level: 195 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1916

SHQ opened - 27 Aug 1936

No 3 Group (3 Sep 1936 - 10 Mar 1938)

No 5 Group (10 Mar 1938 - 7 Oct 1944)

No 1 Group (7 Oct 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 5 Sep 2022

Notes

Originally known as Brattlesby

It was HQ Scampton Base 10 May 1943, becoming No 52 Base on 16 Sep 1943. It was transferred to No 1 Group becoming HQ, No 15 Base from 7 Oct 1944 until 20 Oct 1945.

Main units: -

No 49 Reserve Sqn (16 Oct - 14 Nov 1916)

No 37 Reserve Sqn (12 Nov 1916 - 15 Sep 1917)

81 Sqn (15 Jan 1917 - 4 Jul 1918)

No 60 Reserve Sqn (14 Apr - 31 May 1917)

No 37 Training Sqn (31 May - 15 Sep 1917)

No 60 Training Sqn (31 May 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

No 11 Training Sqn (15 Sep 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

152nd Aero Sqn, USAAS (Jul 1918 - xxx xxxx)

155th Aero Sqn, USAAS (Jul 1918 - xxx xxxx)

No 34 Training Depot Station (15 Jul 1918 - 5 Mar 1919)

9 Sqn (1 Oct 1936 - 10 Mar 1938)

214 Sqn (1 Oct 1936 - 19 Apr 1937)

148 Sqn (7 Jun 1937 - 10 Mar 1938)

49 Sqn (14 Mar 1938 - 2 Jan 1943)

83 Sqn (14 Mar 1938 - 15 Aug 1942, 10 Oct 1960 - 31 Aug 1969)

107 Sqn (3 - 8 Aug 1938)

'B' Flt, No 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (1 - 5 Sep 1939)

98 Sqn (2 - 19 Mar 1940)

HQ, No 75 Wing (18 - 27 Jun 1940)

No 724 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 5 Group Training Flt (19 Aug - 2 Oct 1941)

Detachments**

33 Sqn (3 Oct 1916 - 13 Jun 1919)

135th Aero Sqn, USAAS (8 Jan - 27 Feb 1918)

‘C’ Flt, 92nd Aero Sqn, USAAS (Jul - Sep 1918)

‘A’ Flt, 176th Aero Sqn, USAAS (Jul 1918 - xxx xxxx)

No 5 Group Target Towing Flt (Aug - Oct 1941)

57 Sqn (Nov - Dec 1945)

819 Sqn (13 - 16 Oct 1980)

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RAF Scarborough

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 10 Initial Training Wing (31 Dec 1940 - 18 Jun 1945)

No 11 Initial Training Wing (15 Mar 1941 - 10 Oct 1944)

No 17 Initial Training Wing (13 Oct 1941 - 4 Oct 1944)

No 6 Air Crew Reception Centre (1 Apr - Dec 1944)

No 35 Reception and Reclassification Wing
No 36 Reception and Reclassification Wing

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long:

Grid Ref:

Height above sea level: ft

Railway Station - Scarborough LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1944

No 54 Group (xx xxx 1944 -

Notes.

Units located in the town prior to the formation of the SHQ are also shown.

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RAF Schleswigland

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 2809 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx - Dec 1945)

184 Sqn (28 May 1945 - 2 Sep 1945)

No 83 Group Communication Flt (10 Jun - 10 Aug 1945)

No 6175 Servicing Echelon (16 Jun - 31 Sep 1945)

175 Sqn (16 Jun 1945 - 22 Aug 1945)

No 6245 Servicing Echelon (28 May - 10 Aug 1945)

245 Sqn (4 Jul 1945 - 10 Aug 1945)

26 Sqn (20 Aug 1945 - 7 Sep 1945)

56 Sqn (22 Aug 1945 - 5 Sep 1945)

No 6056 Servicing Echelon (22 Aug - 5 Sep 1945)

182 Sqn (8 Sep 1945 - 30 Sep 1945)

No 6182 Servicing Echelon (8 - 30 Sep 1945)

No 6181 Servicing Echelon (8 - 30 Sep 1945)

181 Sqn (9 Sep 1945 - 30 Sep 1945)

No 9 Mobile Parachute Servicing Unit (6 Apr - 1 Nov 1948)

Transport Support Practice Camp (19 Apr - 1 Nov 1948)

Towed Target Flt, Schleswigland ( Mar 1953 - 1 May 1958)

Location

Country: - Germany

Lat/Long: 51:15:0 N 13:1:0 E

Height Above Sea Level - 70 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (airfield) - 4 May 1945

SHQ opened - 19 Dec 1945

BAFO (19 Dec 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ disbanded - 19 May 1946

C & M (1 May 1947 - 1 Feb 1948)

SHQ reformed - 1 Feb 1948

No 46 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 7 Oct 1949)

No 85 Group (7 Oct 1949 - 1 May 1950)

C & M (15 Nov 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)*

Part transferred to Norwegian Army - 19 Aug 1950

HQ BAFO (1 Aug 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1958 (transferred to German Navy)

Notes

also known as B164

*Administrative control was transferred to RAF Fassberg on 1 April 1950.

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RAF Schwechat

RAF Schwechat (No 173 SP)

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Air Division, Allied Commission, Austria (xx xxx 1945 - 23 Feb 1953)

Detachment, 525 Sqn (Jul 1945 - Dec 1946)**

No 175 Staging Post (7 Aug 1945 - 11 Dec 1946)

Detachment, 187 Sqn (Oct - Dec 1946)**

Detachment, 238 Sqn (Dec 1946 - Nov 1947)**

Location

Country: - Austria

Lat/Long: 48:06:39 N 016:34:15 E

Height above sea level: 600 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Transport Command (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Dec 1947)

No 2 Group (1 Dec 1947 - 15 Jan 1950)

HQ, BAFO (15 Jan 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred to Civilian Authorities - xx xxx 1954

Notes

Renamed RAF Schwechat (No 173 SP) on 11 December 1946.

It is now Vienna International Airport

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RAF Scorton

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

167 Sqn (6 Apr - 23 May 1942)

406 Sqn (16 Jun - 4 Sep 1942)

410 Sqn (1 Sep - 20 Oct 1942)

219 Sqn (21 Oct 1942 - 24 Apr 1943)

604 Sqn (24 Apr 1943 - 25 Apr 1944)

No 604 (AAF) Servicing Echelon (24 Apr – 20 Dec 1943)

Detachment - 417th Night Fighter Sqn, USAAF (23 May - 10 Jun 1943)

417th Night Fighter Sqn, USAAF (10 Jun - 8 Aug 1943)

No 604 (AAF) Servicing Echelon (8 – 16 Nov 1943, 30 Nov – 20 Dec 1943)

130 Sqn (10 - 22 Nov 1943, 4 Jan - 13 Feb 1944)

26 Sqn (12 - 28 Feb 1944)

56 Sqn (15 - 23 Feb 1944, 7 Mar - 7 Apr 1944)

422nd Night Fighter Sqn, USAAF (7 May - 25 Jul 1944)

425th Night Fighter Sqn, USAAF (12 Jun - 18 Aug 1944)

950 (Balloon) Sqn (2 Oct - 7 Dec 1944)

Sub-site, No 91 Maintenance Unit (15 Dec 1947 - 1 Dec 1952)

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 54:23:45N 01:37:45W

Grid Ref - NZ240003

Height Above Sea Level - 200 ft

Railway Station - Scorton LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened (Satellite) - 1939

SHQ opened - 14 Nov 1943

Balloon Command (14 Nov 1943 - 1 Dec 1944)

TTC (1 Dec 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Maintenance Command (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Notes

Main Units: -

No 3017 (Eagle) Servicing Echelon (5 Jun 1941 – xxx xxxx)

122 Sqn (6 Oct 1941 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 3032 Servicing Echelon (14 Nov 1941 – 1 Apr 1942)

‘A’ Flt , 406 Sqn (2 Feb - 16 Jun 1942)

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Aerial photo on Google Maps, Commanding Officers,

RAF Sculthorpe

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

Satellite, RAF West Raynham (15 Jan - 1 Nov 1943)

342 Sqn (15 May - 19 Jul 1943)

487 Sqn (20 Jul - 31 Dec 1943)

464 Sqn (21 Jul - 31 Dec 1943)

No 11 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section (16 Aug 1943 - 15 Mar 1944)

Mosquito Conversion Flt (22 Aug 1943 - xxx 1944)

21 Sqn (27 Sep - 31 Dec 1943)

Detachment - 613 Sqn (14 Oct 1943 - xxx xxxx)

No 3128 Servicing Echelon (15 Oct – 31 Dec 1943)

No 3130 (RAAF) Servicing Echelon (15 Oct – 30 Nov 1943)

No 3131 Servicing Echelon (15 Oct – 31 Dec 1943)

No 3207 Servicing Commando (6 - 27 Nov 1943)

No 3130 Servicing Echelon (30 Nov – 31 Dec 1943)

214 Sqn (16 Jan - 16 May 1944)

No 1699 (Fortress Training) Flt (24 Apr - 16 May 1944)

Various detachments of USAF units from 1949 - 1989

Special Duties Flt (xxx 1951 - Apr 1954)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 52:50:49N 00:45:28E

Grid Ref - TF862313

Height Above Sea Level - 200 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (Satellite) - 15 Jan 1943

No 2 Group (15 Jan - 31 Dec 1943)

SHQ opened - 1 Nov 1943

Bomber Command (31 Dec 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - xx xxx xxxx

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Bomber Command, parented by RAF Marham.

SHQ reopened - 1 Jan 1949

Transferred to administrative control of USAF - 1 Feb 1951

Closed -

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome by Bomber Command was issued in October 1941.

It became self accounting on 1 November 1943.

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RAF Sealand

No Badge authorised

Main units (Shotwick) (continued): -

No 4 Training Sqn (31 May 1919 - 26 Apr 1920)

HQ, No 10 Wing (18 Oct 1919 - 7 Feb 1920)

55 Sqn (30 Dec 1919 - 22 Jan 1920)

No 5 Flying Training School (26 Apr 1920 - 24 Jun 1924)

Main units (Sealand): -

No 5 Flying Training School 24 Jun 1924 - 3 Sep 1939)

No 3 Aircraft Storage Unit (1 Dec 1935 - 10 Feb 1938)

No 36 Maintenance Unit (15 Oct 1938 - 1 May 1940)

No 30 Maintenance Unit (1 Aug 1939 - 12 Jun 1956, 1 Feb 1959 - Mar 2006)

30 Maintenance Unit Communication Flt (1 Aug 1939 - 15 Mar 1951)

No 4 Personnel Transit Centre (24 Aug 1939 - xxx xxxx)

No 5 Service Flying Training School (3 Sep 1939 - 17 Dec 1940)

No 6 Salvage Section (18 - 28 Sep 1939)

No 47 Maintenance Unit (1 May 1940 - 15 Mar 1951)

79 Sqn (11 - 13 Jul 1940)

RLG for No 57 Operational Training Unit (18 Dec 1940 - Jan 1941)

No 81 Group Communication Flt (28 Dec 1940 - 19 Feb 1941)

No 19 Elementary Flying Training School (21 Jan 1941 - 27 Dec 1941)

‘X’ Flt, 800 Sqn FAA (5 - 10 May 1941)

No 803 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2803 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

No 24 Elementary Flying Training School (7 Feb 1942 - 1 Mar 1946)

No 1531 Beam Approach Training Flt (20 Jul - 3 Oct 1942)

No 192 Gliding School (May 1946 - xxx 1947, xxx 1948 - xxx 1950)

No 987 Signals Unit (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Sub-site, No 21 Maintenance Unit (1 Oct 1958 - 1 Feb 1959)

No 631 Volunteer Gliding School (11 May 1963 - xxx 2005)

No 8 Sub-site, No 16 Maintenance Unit (Dec 1978 - Mar 2006)

No 631 Volunteer Gliding Sqn (xxx 2005 - Mar 2006)

Location

County: - Flintshire

Lat/Long: 53:13:30N 03:0015W

Grid Ref - SJ331709

Height Above Sea Level - 15 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1916

No 21 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 12 Nov 1940)

No 43 Group (12 Nov 1940 - xx xxx 1941)

No 51 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 May 1942)

No 43 Group (1 May 1942 - 16 Mar 1951)

Administrative control transferred to USAF - 16 Mar 1951

No 40 Group (16 Mar 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - Apr 2006

Notes

The station was known as Shotwick until 24 Jun 1924, when it was changed to avoid confusion with RAF Scopwick which renamed RAF Digby.

Main units (Shotwick): -

95 Sqn (30 Oct 1917 - 4 Jul 1918)

96 Sqn (30 Oct 1917 - 4 Jul 1918)

90 Sqn (5 Dec 1917 - 5 Jul 1918)

Aircraft Acceptance Park (under construction 1 Apr 1918 - Jun 1919)

No 67 Training Sqn (1 Apr - 15 Jul 1918)

No 55 Training Sqn (xx - 15 Jul 1918)

No 51 Training Depot Station (15 Jul 1918 - 14 Mar 1919)

No 51 Training Sqn (14 Mar - 31 May 1919)

27 Sqn (18 Mar 1919 - 22 Jan 1920)

98 Sqn (21 Mar - 24 Jun 1919)

103 Sqn (26 Mar - 1 Oct 1919)

Detachments

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (14 Jan - 24 May 1941,Sep 1941, 23 Feb - 26 Jun 1942, Mar - 30 Nov 1943)

577 Sqn (1 Dec 1943 - 19 Nov 1944)

631 Sqn (20 Aug 1947 - 28 Jan 1948)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps, Officers Commanding,

RAF Secunderabad

No Badge authorised

Main units (Secunderabad): -

No 2 School of Technical Training (India) (22 Jun 1943 - 1 Sep 1946)

No 14 School of Technical Training (India) (1 May 1944 - 1 Sep 1946)

RAF Regiment Depot (India)

Main units (Begumpet): -

20 Sqn (10 Jun 1941 - 2 Mar 1942)

HQ, No 2 (Indian) Group (1 Oct 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

Location

Country: - Andhra Pradesh, India

Lat/Long: 17:27:11N 78:28:12E

Height Above Sea Level: 1,741 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - xx xxx xxxx

SHQ disbanded - 25 Sep 1945

Notes

It is now an Indian Air Force station known as Begumpet (2008) and Rejiv Gandhi Airport

Detachments**

28 Sqn (Dec 1926 - Aug 1930)

31 Sqn (Feb 1931 - Jun 1935)

5 Sqn (May 1931 - Jun 1935)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps, Control Towers website,

RAF Seething

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

448th Bomb Group, USAAF (1 Dec 1943 - Jul 1945)

712th Bomb Sqn
713th Bomb Sqn
714th Bomb Sqn
715th Bomb Sqn

Sub-site, No 53 Maintenance Unit (15 Jul 1945 - 24 Nov 1947, 1 Jan 1950 - 22 Oct 1956)

Sub-site, No 94 Maintenance Unit (24 Nov 1947 - 1 Jan 1950)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 52:30:30N 01:24:45E

Grid Ref - TM315955

Height Above Sea Level - 130 ft

Railway Station - Ditchingham LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Sep 1943

2nd Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (1 Sep 1943- 15 Feb 1943)

2nd Bombardment Wing, USAAF (15 Feb 1944 - 15 Jul 1945)

Maintenance Command (15 Jul 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a operational bomber satellite airfield for Hardwick was issued in January 1942.

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RAF Sek Kong

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Jan 1951

Satellite, RAF Kai Tak (1 Jan 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1997

Notes

Location

Country: - Hong Kong

Lat/Long: 22:26:12N 114:04:49E

Main units: -

80 Sqn (3 Jan - 1 Feb 1950, 7 Mar - 28 Apr 1950)

28 Sqn (1 May - 7 Oct 1950, 28 Mar 1951 - 15 Aug 1955, 5 Dec 1955 - 14 Jun 1957, 17 May 1978 - 1 Nov 1996)

Links to related sites/pages

Officers Commanding, Aerial photo on Google Maps, Personnel Listings,

RAF Seletar

Main units (continued): -

110 Sqn (22 Sep 1945 - 27 Feb 1946, 27 May - 27 Aug 1949, 17 Jan 1964 - 6 Mar 1969)

No 7084 Servicing Echelon (22 Sep 1945 – 16 Jan 1946)

No 7110 Servicing Echelon (22 Sep 1945 – 27 Feb 1946)

11 Sqn (25 Sep 1945 - 7 Jan 1946)

No 7017 Servicing Echelon (25 Sep 1945 – 8 Jan 1946, 12 Apr – 1 May 1946)

No 7089 Servicing Echelon (26 Sep 1945 – 1 May 1946)

89 Sqn (26 Sep 1945 - 1 May 1946)

No 7011 Servicing Echelon (4 Oct 1945 – 9 Jan 1946)

No 7132 Servicing Echelon (5 Oct 1945 - 8 Jan 1946)

No 200 Staging Post (Oct - Dec 1945)

No 389 Maintenance Unit (1 Nov 1945 - 16 Jun 1948, 1 Jun 1951 - 1 May 1953)

No 390 Maintenance Unit (1 Nov 1945 - 16 Jun 1948, 15 May 1951 - 1 May 1953)

Marine Craft Section, Seletar (21 Nov 1945 - 1 Aug 1961)

681 Sqn (10 Jan - 28 May 1946)

No 314 Maintenance Unit (1 Feb 1946 - 16 Jun 1948)

17 Sqn (12 - 23 Apr 1946)

209 Sqn (28 Apr 1946 - 1 Jan 1955, 1 Oct 1959 - 31 Dec 1968)

22 Sqn (1 May - 15 Aug 1946)

684 Sqn (xx Aug - 1 Sep 1946)

81 Sqn (1 Sep 1946 - 1 Oct 1947)

84 Sqn (11 Sep 1946 - 26 Sep 1947)

No 21022 AMES (14 Feb 1948 - 15 Jan 1949)

RAF Maintenance Base, Far East (16 Jun 1948 - 15 May 1951)

No 92 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (xx xxx xxxx - 20 Jul 1949)

No 93 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (21 Jul 1949 - 3 May 1950, 13 Oct 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

52 Sqn (31 May - 27 Aug 1949, 22 Dec 1966 - 17 Feb 1969)

Far East Flying Boat Wing (1 Feb 1950 - 31 Dec 1954)

Far East Air Force Examining Sqn (15 Mar 1950 - 1 Jun 1951)

Towed Target Flt (15 Apr - 1 Jun 1951)

FEAF Training Sqn (1 Jun 1951 - 20 Aug 1954)

88 Sqn (24 Jun 1951 - 1 Oct 1954)

HQ, No 224 Group (6 Apr 1959 - 1 Oct 1968)

No 224 Group Communications Flt (6 Apr 1959 - 1 Oct 1968)

No 61 Signals Unit (xxx 1959 - Jun 1963)

34 Sqn (1 Oct 1960 - 31 Dec 1967)

No 1124 Marine Craft Unit (1 Aug 1961 - 21 Dec 1970)

66 Sqn (26 May 1962 - 17 Mar 1969)

103 Sqn (1 Aug 1963 - 28 Mar 1969)

225 Sqn (15 Nov - 8 Dec 1963)

No 6 Tactical Signals Unit (xxx xxxx - xxx xxxx)

65 Sqn (1 Jan 1964 - 30 Mar 1970)

Far East School of Joint Warfare (1 Apr 1966 - 31 Mar 1968)

No 15 Sqn RAF Regiment

Location

Country: - Singapore

Lat/Long: 01:25:01N 103:52:04E

Height above sea level: 36 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Jan 1930

RAF Far East (1 Jan 1940 - 23 Mar 1942)

SHQ formally disbanded - 28 Mar 1942

SHQ reopened - 21 Nov 1945

HQ, Air Command South East Asia (21 Nov 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Renamed RAF Base Seletar - 1 Apr 1946

Far East Air Force (1 Jun 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Renamed RAF Maintenance Base -

Renamed RAF Station, Seletar - 1 Jun 1951

Closed - 31 Mar 1971

Notes

A landing ground was constructed in 1926/27 as well as a slipway for flying boats.

On closure as a RAF station, it was handed over to the Republic of Singapore Air Force

Main units: -

205 Sqn (8 Jan 1929 - 31 Jan 1942, 15 Sep 1949 - 1 Mar 1958)

36 Sqn (14 Nov 1930 - 1 Feb 1942)

100 Sqn (6 Jan 1934 - 31 Jan 1942)

Straits Settlement Volunteer Air Force (25 Mar 1936 - 1 Nov 1939)

230 Sqn (8 Jan 1937 - 13 Feb 1940, 1 Dec 1945 - 15 Apr 1946)

HQ Far East Communications Flt (1939 - 1940)

Emergency Flying Training Flt (26 Aug 1939 - Apr 1940)

Spotter Unit (1 Oct - Nov 1939)

'Z' Temporary Maintenance Unit (1941 - 1942)

Air Ammunition Park, Far East (18 Mar 1941 - 28 Mar 1942)

No 151 Maintenance Unit (1 Jun 1941 - 10 Feb 1942)

Calibration Flt (30 Jun 1941 - 15 Feb 1942)

No 81 Repair and Salvage Unit (19 Sep 1941 - 28 Mar 1942)

232 Sqn (13 Jan - 5 Feb 1942)

258 Sqn (28 - 30 Jan 1942)

No 2846 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - Mar 1946)

Detachments**

60 Sqn (Mar 1930 - Mar 1939)

605 Sqn (Jan 1942)

230 Sqn (Jul - Dec 1945)

110 Sqn (Feb - Apr 1946)

88 Sqn (Dec 1946 - Jun 1951)

155 Sqn (Oct 1954 - Jun 1959)

205 Sqn (Mar 1958 - Oct 1971)

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RAF Sembawang

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

453 Sqn (15 Aug - 15 Dec 1941)

RAF Regiment (Malaya) Depot (xx xxx 1947 - 16 Aug 1949)

No 91 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (xx xxx 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 92 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (xx xxx 1947 - 20 Jul 1949)

No 93 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (xx xxx 1947 - 1 Jan 1949)

No 94 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (xx xxx 1947 - 15 Apr 1949)

HQ, No 2 District, RAF Police (xx Jan 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 64 P & SS Flight, RAF Police (xx Jan 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 65 P & SS Flight, RAF Police (xx Jan 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

60 Sqn (24 Jan 1948 - 31 Aug 1949)

28 Sqn (26 Jan 1948 - 11 May 1949)

No 1914 AOP Flt (1 Feb - 13 Jul 1948)

656 Sqn (29 Jun 1948 - 17 Aug 1949)

No 1907 AOP Flt (15 Jul 1948 - 27 Aug 1948, 2 May 1951 - 12 Dec 1952)

No 95 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Malaya) (1 Jan - 15 Aug 1949)

HQ, No 303 Wing (1 Feb - 1 May 1953)

194 Sqn (2 Feb - 1 May 1953)

No 1902 AOP Flt (Jul 1953 - 1 Nov 1954)

No 1903 AOP Flt (Jul 1953 - 1 Nov 1954)

Location

Country: - Singapore

Lat/Long: 01:25:27N 103:48:36E

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 1 Mar 1940

Far East Command (1 Mar 1940 - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred from RNAS - 16 Jan 1948

SHQ opened - 16 Jan 1948

AHQ Malaya (16 Jan 1948 - xx xx xxxx)

SHQ closed - 15 Sep 1949

C & M (15 Sep 1949 - 16 Jan 1950)

Reverted to the Royal Navy - 16 Jan 1950

Notes

Main units: -

Detachment** - 62 Sqn (Feb - Dec 1941)

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RAF Setif

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

255 Sqn (19 Dec 1942 - 21 May 1943)

No 111 Repair and Salvage Unit (7 Dec 1942 - 28 Mar 1943)

253 Sqn (5 Jan - 13 Feb 1943)

No 325 Wing (10 Jan - 30 Jun 1943)

600 Sqn (10 Jan - 25 Jun 1943)

152 Sqn (15 Jan - 3 Feb 1943)

242 Sqn (29 Jan - 23 Feb 1943)

No 1 (North Africa) Aircraft Repair Unit (28 Mar - 10 May 1943)

No 7 (North Africa) Aircraft Repair Unit (10 - 22 May 1943)

No 155 Maintenance Unit (22 May 1943- 31 Mar 1945)

Advance Flying Unit, Setif (1 Jul 1943 - 31 Mar 1944)

No 162 Maintenance Unit (3 Aug 1943 - 1 Aug 1944)

Air Observation Post Training Flight (30 Sep 1943 - xx xxx 1944)

Location

Country: - Algeria

Lat/Long: 36:10:40N 05:19:45E

Height above sea level: 3,350 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1942

NWAAF (xx xxx 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes.

On 1 October 1943, No 155 MU became the controlling unit with the OC, No 155 MU assuming the duties of Station Commander.

Main units: -

114 Sqn (5 - 17 Dec 1942)

Detachments**

13 Sqn (Nov - Dec 1942)

18 Sqn (Nov 1942 - Mar 1943)

87 Sqn (Dec 1942 - Apr 1943)

242 Sqn (Jan 1943)

Detachment, No 3 (ME) Aircraft Deliver Unit (14 Aug 1943 - 23 Sep 1944)

Detachment, No 3 Ferry Unit (1944)

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RAF Seychelles

No Badge authorised

Detachments**: -

205 Sqn (Apr 1941 - Jan 1942)

413 Sqn (Apr 1942 - Jan 1945)

209 Sqn (Jul 1942 - Jul 1945)

259 Sqn (Sep 1943 - Mar 1945)

265 Sqn (Apr 1943 - May 1945)

Location

Country: - Seychelles

Lat/Long: 04:40:30S 55:31:18E

Height Above Sea Level: 10 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - xx Sep 1943

Middle East Command (xx Sep 1943 - xx xxx xxx)

SHQ disbanded - 30 Jun 1946

Notes

From 1 June 1943, until September, it was known as RAF Unit, Seychelles.

This was located at Port Victoria

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RAF Shaibah

RAF Shaibah (No 42 Staging Post)

RAF Shaibah (SP)

RAF Shaibah badge

Main units (continued): -

Central Air Communication Sqn (xxx - 16 Mar 1920)

84 Sqn (21 Apr 1924 - 24 Sep 1940)

55 Sqn (8 Jan - 6 May 1928)

Central Air Communication Section (16 Mar 1929 - 31 Mar 1922)

244 Sqn (1 Nov 1940 - May 1942)

261 Sqn (10 Aug - 27 Sep 1941)

No 119 Maintenance Unit (19 Oct 1941 - 1 Jul 1945)

No 27 Personnel Transit Centre (1 Jun 1942 - 10 May 1944)

981 (Balloon) Sqn (Jul - 6 Sep 1942)

983 (Balloon) Sqn (xxx 1942 - 7 Feb 1943)

No 42 Staging Post (1 Nov 1942 - 1 Aug 1945)

Aircraft Erection Unit (Iraq and Persia) (2 Apr 1943 - 5 Jan 1945)

74 Sqn (11 Apr - 17 May 1943)

No 34 Air Despatch & Reception Unit (xxx 1943 - Sep 1944)

Defence Flt, Iraq (15 Jun - 25 Aug 1943)

No 157 Repair & Salvage Unit (1 Jul - 10 Nov 1945)

HQ, No 115 (Transport) Wing (24 Oct - 22 Nov 1945)

No 1358 Pampa Flt (31 Jan - 10 Apr 1946)

8 Sqn (31 May - 8 Sep 1951)

6 Sqn (18 Jun - 19 Sep 1951)

249 Sqn (14 Jul - 24 Oct 1951)

73 Sqn (5 Jan - 25 Mar 1954)

32 Sqn (14 Jan - 16 Oct 1955)

Location

Country: - Iraq

Lat/Long:

Height Above Sea Level: 64 ft

Operational Control: -

RAF Iraq Command,

AHQ Iraq,

AHQ Iraq & Persia (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Mar 1945)

No 216 Group (1 Mar 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ opened - 1 Aug 1945 (from No 42 Staging Post)

AHQ Levant (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

AHQ Iraq (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - 1 Jul 1950

C & M, parented by RAF Bahrein (1 Jul 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

It was renamed RAF Shaibah (No 42 Staging Post) on 1 August 1945 and RAF Shaibah (SP) on 1 June 1946.

On 15 January 1951 its policy was revised as follows to provide: -

Dawn to dusk staging post facilities for up to 60 aircraft movements per month and in addition 24 hour diversion facilities for Habbaniya.
Permanent accommodation for 10 aircrew and 50 passengers of transport aircraft landing in an emergency.
Emergency tented accommodation for 1,000 transients.
Care and maintenance of buildings and installations not immediately in use.
Limited administration for: -
1. RAF Levies Iraq (Detachment)
2. RAF Basrah
Storage and maintenance of 700 tons of explosives and pre-stocking in accordance with current instructions.

Detachments**

55 Sqn (Nov 1924 - Jan 1928, May 1928 - Feb 1930)

30 Sqn (Oct 1927 - Apr 1929)

70 Sqn (Sep 1940 - Jan 1942)

37 Sqn (Dec 1940 - Apr 1942)

31 Sqn (Apr - Sep 1941)

84 Sqn (Jun - Sep 1941)

162 Sqn (Apr 1942 - Apr 1943)

680 Sqn (Feb 1945 - Jul 1946)

683 Sqn (Sep - Dec 1951)

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RAF Shallufa

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

No 3 Mobile Torpedo Unit (1 Jul - 2 Sep 1942)

HQ, No 248 (General Reconnaissance/Torpedo Bomber) Wing (15 Aug - 18 Dec 1942)

221 Sqn (22 Aug 1942 - 1 Feb 1943)

458 Sqn (1 Sep 1942 - 30 Mar 1943)

No 1 RAF Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) (2 Sep 1942 - 10 Mar 1944)

No 2 RAF Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) (2 Sep 1942 - 10 Mar 1944)

No 3 RAF Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) (2 Sep 1942 - 10 Mar 1944)

39 Sqn (2 Oct - 6 Nov 1942, 9 Dec 1942 - 21 Jan 1943)

No 63 Repair & Salvage Unit (xx - 10 Nov 1942)

HQ, No 245 (Naval Co-operation) Wing (20 Feb - 15 Apr 1943)

No 14 RAF Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) (16 Apr 1943 - 1 Dec 1944)

Middle East Armament School (1 May 1943 - 9 Oct 1945)

No 39 (RN) Personnel Transit Centre (3 May 1944 - Aug 1945)

46 Sqn (13 -21 Dec 1944 [No 39 PTC])

No 75 Operational Training Unit (9 Feb - 25 Jun 1945)

No 1342 (RP Training) Flt (Feb - 15 Apr 1945)

No 1343 (Conversion) Flt (Mar - 12 Sep 1945)

No 2 (SAAF) Wing (5 Sep - 15 Dec 1945)

HQ, No 236 Wing (12 Dec 1945 - 31 Mar 1946)

70 Sqn (12 Dec 1946 - 31 Mar 1946)

104 Sqn (1 Jul 1946 - 1 Apr 1947)

70 Sqn (17 Sep 1946 - 1 Apr 1947)

213 Sqn (3 Sep - 22 Oct 1947, 12 Aug - 29 Oct 1953)

6 Sqn (5 Sep - 26 Nov 1947)

No 21201 AMES (15 Sep 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Mediterranean and Middle East Communication Sqn (25 - 27 Oct 1947)

No 5 MT Repair Unit (1 Dec 1947 - 15 Jan 1948)

No 9 Mobile Parachute Servicing Unit (12 Jan 1948)

Middle East Air Force Target Towing Unit (1 Jan 1950 - 15 Jan 1952)

Middle East Air Force Instrument Training Flt (5 Jun 1950 - 15 Jan 1952)

32 Sqn (4 Jan 1951 - 27 Jan 1952)

Detachments

90 Sqn (Jun - Oct 1941)

76 Sqn (Oct 1941 - Sep 1942)

220 Sqn (1 Dec 1941 - 2 May 1942)

39 Sqn (Dec 1941 - Jul 1942, Jan - Jun 1943)

454 Sqn (Apr - Sep 1942)

14 Sqn (Aug 1942 - Jun 1943)

252 Sqn (Dec 1943 - Jan 1944)

351 Sqn (Jul - Sep 1944)

620 Sqn (Mar - Jun 1946)

82 Sqn (Oct 1947 - Nov 1948)

Shallufa Satellite (LG 251)

221 Sqn (

No 57 Repair & Salvage Unit (29 Aug 1941 - 9 Mar 1943)

No 61 Repair & Salvage Unit (28 Oct 1942 - xxx 1943)

Location

Country: - Egypt

Lat/Long: 30:03:00N 32:32:24E

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

Aerodrome opened - xx xxx 1918

Handed over to Disposal and Liquidation Committee - 4 Jul 1922

SHQ opened - 22 Jan 1940

SHQ closed - 30 Jan 1942

SHQ reopened - 20 May 1943

No 203 Group (20 May 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - 1 Dec 1944

SHQ reopened - 15 Feb 1945

Reformed (SAAF Establishment) - 15 Sep 1945

No 205 Group (15 Sep 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

It was originally named Armament Training Station but this was changed to Shallufa on 22 Jan 1940.

The SHQ was disbanded on 27 Dec 1941 being replaced by HQ No 231 (Medium Bomber) Wing.

On 1 November 1950, the station's policy was revised, to provide as follows: -

(a)

(i) An operational training base for Bomber Command single 'Sunray' squadrons and Mosquito marker elements on detachment, in accordance with current Bomber Command operational instructions.

Or

(ii) A medium bomber base.

(b) Bombing range facilities at Shallufa North.

(d) An instrument training flight.

Main units: -

No 20 Training Depot Station (2 Aug - Nov 1918, May - 24 Jun 1919)

No 17 Training Depot Station (May - 25 Jul 1919)

37 Sqn (17 Dec 1940 - 27 Apr 1942, 12 Dec 1945 - 31 Mar 1946)

38 Sqn (18 Dec 1940 - 28 Fen 1943)

HQ, No 257 (Heavy Bomber) Wing (20 Dec 1940 - 23 Oct 1941)

972 (Balloon) Sqn (19 May - 11 Jul 1941)

Special Signals Flt (1 Jul 1941 - xxx 1942)

No 37 Air Stores Park (28 Aug 1941 - 29 Jun 1942, 17 Jul - 3 Nov 1942)

HQ, No 231 Wing (27 Dec 1941 - 20 May 1942, 14 Dec 1945 - 31 Mar 1946)

162 Sqn (6 Jan - 12 Apr 1942)

HQ, No 238 Wing (30 Jan - 19 Aug 1942)

No 205 Group Training Unit (Feb - 15 Apr 1942)

974 (Balloon) Sqn (3 Apr - 14 Jul 1942)

Torpedo Bombing School (15 Apr - 16 May 1942)

No 5 Middle East Training School (16 May 1942 - 1 Dec 1944)

40 Sqn (23 Jun - 20 Aug 1942)

No 1 Mobile Torpedo Unit (1 Jul - 2 Sep 1942)

No 2 Mobile Torpedo Unit (1 Jul - 2 Sep 1942)

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RAF Shandur

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

6 Sqn (28 Apr - 4 Jun 1942)

No 21 Sector (May 1942 - xxx xxxx)

127 Sqn (14 - 27 Jun 1942)

221 Sqn (30 Jun - 11 Aug 1942)

73 Sqn (31 Jul - 22 Aug 1942)

417 Sqn (5 Sep - 10 Oct 1942)

47 Sqn (8 Sep 1942 - 29 Jan 1943)

160 Sqn (8 Nov 1942 - 15 Jan 1943)

147 Sqn (18 Nov 1942 - 15 Feb 1943)

Special Operations (Liberator) Flt (3 Jan - 22 Feb 1943)

178 Sqn (15 Jan - 4 Mar 1943)

134 Sqn (22 Jan - 6 Feb 1943)

237 Sqn (6 - 17 Feb 1943)

108 Sqn (10 Mar - 3 Jun 1943)

No 70 Operational Training Unit (21 May 1943 - 16 Jul 1945)

Location

Country: - Egypt

Lat/Long: 30:11:00N 32:33:36E Approx

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - xx xxx xxxx

Middle East Command (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - xx xxx xxxx

SHQ Reopened - 25 Sep 1945

AHQ Eastern Mediterranean (25 Sep 1945 - 15 Aug 1946)

SHQ disbanded - 15 Aug 1946

Notes

It was originally named Station 'X' but this was changed to Shandur on 22 Jan 1940.

Main Units: -

39 Sqn (21 Mar - 8 May 1941)

223 Sqn (17 Apr 1941 - 16 Apr 1942)

Detachments**

213 Sqn (Jul - Dec 1941)

89 Sqn (Dec 1941 - Jan 1943)

6 Sqn (Jun - Dec 1942)

42 Sqn (Jun - Oct 1942)

39 Sqn (Aug - Oct 1942)

178 Sqn (Mar - Oct 1943)

Links to related sites/pages

Station Website, Commanding Officers, Aerial photo on Google Maps, Control Towers website,

RAF Sharjah

RAF Sharjah (No 44 Staging Post)

RAF Sharjah (SP)

Main units: -

'S' Sqn (Sep 1939)

No 44 Staging Post (Jan 1943 - 1 Aug 1945)

244 Sqn (May - 17 Mar 1944)

6 Sqn (20 Jan - 18 Feb 1953)

AHQ Levant Communication Flt (xxx 1957 - 1 Apr 1958)

84 Sqn (3 Sep 1967 - 30 Dec 1970)

78 Sqn (13 Oct 1967 - 21 Dec 1971)

Search & Rescue section (xxx 1968 - 1 Aug 1969)

210 Sqn (1 Nov 1970 - 15 Nov 1971)

Location

Country: - Oman

Lat/Long: 25:20:42N 55:23:42E

Height Above Sea Level: 111 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1932 (landing ground)

SHQ opened (C & M) - xx xx 1943

AHQ Iraq and Persia (xx xxx 1943 - 1 May 1944)

SHQ closed - 1 May 1944

SHQ reopened - 1 Aug 1945 (from No 44 Staging Post)

AHQ Iraq (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 14 Dec 1971

Detachments**

84 Sqn (xxx 1933 - Dec 1934, Feb 1939 - Sep 1940)

60 Sqn (Mar 1939 - Sep 1940)

244 Sqn (Nov 1940 - May 1942)

680 Sqn (Feb 1945 - Jul 1946)

294 Sqn (Jun 1945 - Apr 1946)

683 Sqn (Jun - Nov 1953)

73 Sqn (Jan - Mar 1954, Jul 1954 - Mar 1955)

249 Sqn (Jul - Oct 1957)

88 Sqn (Jul 1961 - xxx xxxx)

213 Sqn (Jul 1961 - xxx xxxx)

8 Sqn (Oct 1961 - Aug 1967, Sep 1967 - Dec 1971)

152 Sqn (Apr 1963 - Nov 1967)

208 Sqn (Jun 1964 - Sep 1971)

Notes

It was renamed RAF Sharjah (No 44 Staging Post) on 1 August 1945 and RAF Sharjah (SP) on 1 June 1946.

On 15 January 1951 its policy was revised as follows to provide: -

A joint user airfield with daylight landing facilities for up to 60 aircraft movements per month.
Accommodation for up to 25 transients and in an emergency 75 passengers and 25 aircrew.

On 15 July 1951 its policy was further revised as follows: -

A self-accounting unit, under the control of AHQ Iraq to provide: -

Dawn to dusk staging post facilities, for RAF and foreign military aircraft.
All fire and crash services. (A joint user airfield, all other services provided by MCA)

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RAF Shawbury

Main units (continued): -

90 Sqn (8 - 18 Oct 1917)

5 Training Sqn, AFC (14 Jan - 2 Apr 1918)

No 9 Training Depot Station (15 Mar 1918 - 25 Apr 1919)

131 Sqn (15 Mar - 17 Aug 1918)

137 Sqn (1 Apr - 4 Jul 1918)

No 27 Maintenance Unit (10 Feb 1938 - 1 Jul 1972)

No 11 Flying Training School (16 May 1938 - 3 Sep 1939)

No 11 Service Flying Training School (3 Sep 1939 - 14 Mar 1942)

No 1 Ground Instructors' School (2 Mar 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 11 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (14 Mar 1942 - 31 Jan 1944)

No 1534 Beam Approach Training Flt (7 Dec 1942 - 29 May 1945)

Central Navigation School (11 Feb - 28 Oct 1944, 31 Jul 1949 - 10 Feb 1950)

Empire Air Navigation School (28 Oct 1944 - 31 Jul 1949)

HQ, RAF Shawbury (5 Apr 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

Central Navigation and Control School (10 Feb 1950 - 11 Feb 1963)

The Staff Navigation Course (xxx xxxx - 11 Feb 1963)

University of Birmingham Air Sqn (24 Mar 1958 - Mar 1978)

No 8 Air Experience Flt (1 Feb 1960 - xxx 1978)

Central Air Traffic Control School (11 Feb 1963 - Current)

No 2 Flying Training School (29 Sep 1976 - 30 Mar 1997)

Aircraft Storage Flt (Jul 1982 - xxx 199x)

Defence Helicopter Flying School (1 Apr 1997 - Current)

660 Sqn AAC (1 Apr 1997 - Current)

705 Sqn FAA (1 Apr 1997 - Current)

60 Sqn (DHFS) (1 May 1997 - Current)

No 6 Flt AAC (1 Jun 1993 - 2011)

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long: 52:47:45N 02:40:00W

Grid Ref: SJ550220

Height above sea level: 245ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - Jun 1917

Closed - 1920

Re-opened - 1938

RAF Shawbury (5 Apr 1948 - 16 May 1949)

No 21 Group (16 May 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Personnel & Training Command (2006)

Notes

From 5 April 1948 it was raised to Group status within FTC.

Main units: -

No 67 Training Sqn (11 Jun 1917 - 1 Apr 1918)

No 29 Training Sqn (15 Jun 1917 - 14 Jan 1918)

No 30 Training Sqn (15 - 30 Jun 1917)

No 10 Training Sqn (30 Jun 1917 - 7 Jul 1918)

Detachments**

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (6 Feb - May 1941, Feb 1942)

No 7 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (May 1941 - Jan 1942)

411 Sqn (5 - 7 Jun 1942, 5 - 8 Aug 1942)

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RAF Sheikh Othman

RAF Unit Sheikh Othman (SP)

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

41 Sqn (18 Mar - 11 Aug 1936)

94 Sqn (2 May 1939 - 19 Apr 1941)

203 Sqn (15 Feb - 18 May 1940)

39 Sqn (13 May - 13 Dec 1940)

11 Sqn (16 Jun - 1 Dec 1940)

No 73 Operational Training Unit (20 Nov 1941 - 24 Nov 1942)

No 3 (Middle East) Ferry Control (20 May 1942 - 1 Feb 1944)

Staging Post (9 Jun 1942 - 8 Mar 1943)

Fighter Defence Flt, Aden (1 Oct 1942 - 31 Jan 1943)

No 30 Staging Post (8 Mar 1943 - 1 Jun 1946)

HQ, No 115 (Transport) Wing (22 Nov 1945 - 10 Apr 1946)

Location

Country: - Aden

Lat/Long: 12:54:36N 45:00:00E Approx

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

AHQ Aden (xxx 1940 - 1 Apr 1943)

US Air Transport Command (1 Apr 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

C & M (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Sep 1950)

Station disbanded - 1 Sep 1950

Notes

It was renamed RAF Unit Sheikh Othman (SP) on 1 June 1946.

The station was transferred to the USAAF on 1 April 1943

Detachments**

8 Sqn (Apr 1939 - May 1941, Dec 1952 - Jul 1953)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo of presumed area on Google Maps,

RAF Shellingford

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 3 EFTS RLG (6 Sep - 18 Dec 1941)

3 EFTS (18 Dec 1941 - 31 Mar 1948)

Oxford UAS (xx Sep - 20 Dec 1946)

Location

County: - Berkshire

Lat/Long: 51:38:15N 01:31:30W

Grid Ref: SU328925

Height above sea level: 275 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1941

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 14 Aug 1948)

Station closed - 14 Aug 1948 (Parented by RAF Fairford)

Transport Command (14 Aug 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Transport Command, parented by RAF Abingdon. By 18 March 1949 its status had changed to Surplus.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as an EFTS was issued in October 1940.

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RAF Shepherd's Grove

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Sub Station, No 31 Base (15 May - 1 Nov 1944)

No 1657 Heavy Conversion Unit (14 May - 5 Oct 1944)

No 3 Group Aircrew School (6 Oct - 1 Nov 1944)

No 1677 (Target Towing) Flight (28 Jan - 18 Apr 1945)

299 Sqn (25 Jan - 15 Feb 1946)

196 Sqn (26 Jan - 16 Mar 1946)

No 6196 Servicing Echelon (26 Jan - 18 Aug 1945)

No 6299 Servicing Echelon (26 Jan - 1 Jun 1945)

No 4299 Servicing Echelon (1 Jun 1945 - 28 Feb 1946)

No 4196 Servicing Echelon (18 Aug 1945 - 16 Mar 1946)

No 2 (Horsa) Glider Servicing Echelon (xx xxx xxxx - 22 Jan 1946)

Satellite, RAF Watton (25 Jun 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Flying Wing, Radio Warfare Establishment (25 Jun - 1 Sep 1946)

Flying Wing, Central Signals Establishment (1 Sep 1946 - 30 Nov 1949)

82 Sqn (22 Jul 1959 - 10 Jul 1963)

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long: 52:19:00N 00:55:15E

Grid Ref - TL990728/144

Height Above Sea Level - 200 ft

Railway Stations

Thetford (passengers) LNER
Elmswell (goods) LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 3 Apr 1944

3rd Bombardment Division Substitution Unit (3 Apr - 15 May 1944)

No 3 Group (15 May 1944 - 22 Jan 1945)

No 38 Group (22 Jan 1945 - 27 May 1946)

No 90 Group (27 May 1946 -2 Feb 1950)

On 2 February 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Retention status) in Transport Command parented by RAF Honington. It was transferred to Maintenance Command on 31 March 1950.

Transport Command (2 Feb - 31 Mar 1950)

Maintenance Command (31 Mar 1950 - 12 Feb 1951)

Fighter Command (12 Feb 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred to the administrative control of USAF - 7 Sep 1951

USAF (7 Sep 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1963

Notes

This site was originally requisitioned for use as bomber operational station, under the name of Hopworth, but this was changed to Shepherd's Grove in February 1944 during construction.

It was temporarily transferred to Bomber Command on 15 May 1944, to replace Stradishall whilst runway repairs were being carried out there.

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RAF Sherburn in Elmet

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Detachment - 73 Sqn (Jun - Sep 1940)

No 7 Ferry Pilots Pool (5 Nov 1940 - 1 May 1942)

46 Sqn (1 Mar - 20 May 1941)

Detachment of Leeds University Air Sqn (Apr 1941 - 15 Dec 1945)

885 Sqn FAA (14 - 22 Mar 1942)

No 7 Ferry Pool ATA (1 May 1942 - Oct 1945)

Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment (17 Jun 1942 - 4 Jan 1945)

No 30 Gliding School (May 1944 - Jan 1946)

Leeds University Air Sqn (1 May 1948 - 18 Mar 1954)

Location

County: - West Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 53:47:15N 01:13:15W

Grid Ref - SE520330

Height Above Sea Level - 26 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1917

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 22 May 1942)

No 21 Group (22 May 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ opened - 1 Jul 1942

Closed - 1945

Notes

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RAF Shipdham

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

319th Bomb Group, USAAF (12 Sep - 4 Oct 1942)

44th Bomb Group, USAAF (10 Oct 1942 - 15 Jun 1945)

Sub-site, No 262 Maintenance Unit (18 Nov 1946 - 31 Dec 1947)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 52:37:38N 00:56:00E

Grid Ref - TF982075

Height Above Sea Level - 215 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 10 Jun 1942

No 2 Group (10 Jun - 12 Apr 1943)

2nd Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (12 Apr - 11 May 1943)

2nd Bombardment Wing, USAAF (11 May 1943 - 25 Jun 1945)

Maintenance Command (25 Jun 1945 - 1 Jan 1948)

Station abandoned - 1 Jan 1948

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in No 90 Group, parented by RAF Watton.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a Bomber Operational station was issued in April 1941.

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RAF Shobden

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 5 Glider Training School (30 Jul 1942 - 15 Nov 1945)

Glider Instructors Flt (1 Feb - 22 Dec 1943)

Sub-site, No 25 Maintenance Unit (28 Feb 1946 - 18 Dec 1953)

Detachments**

No 7 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (12 Sep 1940 - 28 May 1941)

No 8 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (28 May - 1 Jul 1941, 31 Jan - 30 Nov 1943)

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (Nov 1943)

88 Sqn (Mar - Aug 1943)

577 Sqn (1 Dec 1943 - xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Herefordshire

Lat/Long: 52:14:08N 02:53:00W

Grid Ref - SO390603

Height Above Sea Level - 300 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 70 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 13 Jul 1942)

No 23 Group (13 Jul 1942 - 15 Feb 1945)

No 38 Group (15 Feb 1945 - 28 Feb 1946)

Maintenance Command (28 Feb 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1946

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as an aerodrome was issued in September 1940.

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RAF Sidmouth

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

RAF Regiment Officer Cadet Training Unit (1 Aug 1942 - 31 Mar 1943)

Medical Training Establishment & Depot (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx 1947)

The Air Crew Officers School (1 Apr 1943 - 3 May 1945)

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 50:40:48N 03:14:20W

Grid Ref - SY124874

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1942

TTC (xx xxx xxxx - 12 Oct 1942)

No 72 Group (12 Oct 1942 - 1 Apr 1943)

No 54 Group (1 Apr - 6 Dec 1943)

No 22 Group (6 Dec 1943 - 5 Mar 1945)

Closed - 5 Mar 1945

Notes

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RAF Sigiriya

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

160 Sqn (2 Aug 1943 - 31 Jul 1944)

No 1303 Meteorological Flt (19 Apr - 1 Jul 1944)

No 1579 Calibration Flt (19 Apr - 7 Jul 1944)

No 20 Armament Practice Camp (9 Apr 1944 - 26 Jun 1945)

No 7008 Servicing Echelon (13 Jun – xxx 1945)

Detachments**

354 Sqn (Feb - Oct 1944)

203 Sqn (Oct 1944 - Feb 1945)

200 Sqn (May 1944 - May 1945)

8 Sqn (May - Nov 1945)

Location

Country: - Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Lat/Long: 07:57:00N 80:43:30E

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened -

SHQ closed - 21 Feb 1945

Satellite, RAF Minneriya (21 Feb 1945 - xx xx xxxx)

Notes

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RAF Silloth

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 22 Maintenance Unit (5 Jun 1939 - 31 Dec 1960)

Coastal Command Landplane Pilots Pool (1 Nov 1939 - 1 Apr 1940)

No 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit (1 Apr 1940 - 24 Mar 1943)

No 6 Operational Training Unit (10 Mar 1943 - 18 Jul 1945)

Polish Flt (4 Jan 1944 - xxx xxxx)

No 5 Ferry Pool (15 Oct 1945 - 25 May 1950)

Location

County: - Cumberland (Cumbria)

Lat/Long: 54:52:15N 03:21:30W

Grid Ref - NY1244436

Height Above Sea Level - 25 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1939

Maintenance Command (5 Jun - 1 Nov 1939)

No 17 Group (1 Nov 1939 - 13 Aug 1945)

Maintenance Command (13 Aug 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1960

Notes

Detachments**

215 Sqn (Oct - Nov 1939)

269 Sqn (24 Jan 1940 - xxx xxxx)

320 Sqn (Aug - Oct 1940, 18 Jan 1941 - Apr 1942)

No 1353 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flt (1 Oct 1945 - 15 Jun 1946)

631 Sqn (22 Aug 1946 - 21 Jul 1947)

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RAF Silverstone

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 17 Operational Training Unit (1 May 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

No 92 Group Instructors Course/School/Flt (15 Mar 1944 - 15 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long: 52:04:15N 01:00:45W

Grid Ref - SP676418

Height Above Sea Level - 506 ft

Railway Station - Towcester LMS

Operational Control: -

Opened - 20 Mar 1943

No 92 Group (20 Mar 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Bicester.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for RAF Bicester was issued in August 1941, but eventually opened as a self-accounting parent station.

It is now a motor racing circuit and the home of the British Grand Prix.

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RAF Skeabrae

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Advanced Ship Recognition Flt (7 Jan - 9 Feb 1943)

66 Sqn (9 Feb - 28 Jun 1943)

No 1476 (Advanced Ship Recognition) Flt (9 Feb - 7 Jun 1943, 25 Jun 1943 - 1 Jan 1944 )

No 6118 Servicing Echelon (22 Mar – 12 Jul 1944)

234 Sqn (24 Apr - 24 Jun 1943)

312 Sqn (24 Jun - 21 Sep 1943)

No 6313 (Czech) Servicing Echelon (11 Jul – 4 Oct 1944)

800 Sqn FAA (16 Sep - 15 Oct 1943)

453 Sqn (18 Oct 1943 - 19 Jan 1944)

880 Sqn FAA (6 - 8 Feb 1944, 14 - 24 Feb 1944, 29 Feb - 17 Mar 1944, 21 - 28 Mar 1944, 7 - 20 Apr 1944, 28 Apr - 3 May 1944, 7 - 11 May 1944, 18 - 28 May 1944, 17 - 22 Jun 1944, 23 Jun - 10 Jul 1944, 19 Jul - 1 Aug 1944, 7 - 14 Aug 1944, 27 Aug - 11 Sep 1944, 13 - 16 Sep 1944, 27 Oct - 8 Nov 1944, 29 Nov 1944 - 15 Jan 1945)

118 Sqn (10 Mar - 12 Jul 1944)

313 Sqn (11 Jul -4 4 Oct 1944)

887 Sqn FAA (24 Sep - 16 Oct 1944)

894 Sqn FAA (24 Sep - 16 Oct 1944)

611 Sqn (3 Oct - 31 Dec 1944)

No 6611 Servicing Echelon (3 Oct – 28 Dec 1944)

No 6402 (RCAF) Servicing Echelon (27 Dec 1944 – 3 Apr 1945)

441 Sqn (28 Dec 1944 - 3 Apr 1945)

881 Sqn FAA (28 Jan - 9 Feb 1945, 14 - 17 Feb 1945, 25 Feb - 2 Mar 1945)

329 Sqn (3 Apr - 25 May 1945)

No 6345 (French) Servicing Echelon (3 Apr 1945)

No 6451 (RAAF) Servicing Echelon (17 May – 12 Jun 1945)

451 Sqn (18 May - 12 Jun 1945)

No 6453 (RAAF) Servicing Echelon (26 May – 14 Jun 1945)

Location

County: - Orkneys

Lat/Long: 59:03:53N 03:16:00W

Grid Ref - HY269207

Height Above Sea Level - 60 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 14 Aug 1940

No 14 Group (14 Aug 1940 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 13 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Sep 1946))

Closed - 1 Sep 1946

Transferred to the Admiralty - 1 Jun 1947

Notes

Main Units: -

804 Sqn FAA (10 - 19 Oct 1940, 28 Oct 1940 - 7 Jan 1941)

3 Sqn (7 Jan - 10 Feb 1941)

253 Sqn (10 Feb - 21 Sep 1941)

331 Sqn (21 Sep 1941 - 4 May 1942)

801 Sqn FAA (8 Nov 1941 - 15 Feb 1942, 10 Jan - 8 Feb 1944, 14 - 24 Feb 1944, 29 Feb - 17 Mar 1944, 21 - 28 Mar 1944, 7 - 20 Apr 1944, 28 Apr - 3 May 1944, 7 - 11 May 1944, 18 May - 7 Jun 1944, 17 - 22 Jun 1944, 23 Jun - 1 Aug 1944, 7 - 9 Aug 1944, 25 Oct - 8 Nov 1944, 29 Nov - 6 Dec 1944, 9 Dec 1944 - 4 Jan 1945)

132 Sqn (15 Feb - 11 Jun 1942)

No 3038 Servicing Echelon (16 Feb – 11 Jun 1942, 15 Apr – 26 Jun 1943)

164 Sqn (4 May - 10 Sep 1942)

602 Sqn (10 Sep 1942 - 20 Jan 1943, 18 Jan - 12 Mar 1944)

884 Sqn FAA (25 Sep - 22 Oct 1942, 25 Nov - 14 Dec 1942)

882 Sqn FAA (1 - 6 Oct 1942)

No 1491 (Fighter) Gunnery Flt (15 Nov 1942 - 16 Aug 1943)

129 Sqn (23 Jan - 13 Feb 1943)

Detachments**

310 Sqn (9 -1 11 Aug 1941)

‘A’ Flt, 17 Sqn (19 - 22 Sep 1941)

416 Sqn (23 - 24 Feb 1942)

129 Sqn (17 - 23 Jan 1943)

598 Sqn (Jan 1944 - 8 Mar 1945)

881 Sqn FAA (16 - 20 Jun 1944)

1841 Sqn FAA (14 - 18 Aug 1944)

801 Sqn FAA (28 Aug - 16 Sep 1944)

841 Sqn FAA (15 - 16 Oct 1944, 21 - 22 Oct 1944, 3 - 4 Nov 1944, 7 - 8 Nov 1944)

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RAF Skellingthorpe

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

RLG for No 3 Operational Training Unit (22 Aug - 26 Nov 1941)

50 Sqn (26 Nov 1941 - 20 Jun 1942, 17 Oct 1942 - 15 Jun 1945)

RLG for No 14 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (Apr 1942)

No 50 Conversion Flt (16 Jun - 21 Aug 1942)

No 97 Conversion Flt (23 Sep - 16 Oct 1942)

No 1485 (Bomber) Gunnery Flt (23 Aug - 12 Nov 1943)

No 1506 Beam Approach Training Flt (23 Aug - 2 Oct 1943)

61 Sqn (16 Nov 1943 - 1 Feb 1944, 15 Apr 1944 - 6 Jun 1945)

No 2890 Sqn, RAF Regiment (Nov 1943 - 1 Feb 1944, 21 Mar - xx xxx 1944)

619 Sqn (30 Jun - 18 Jul 1945)

463 Sqn (3 Jul - 25 Sep 1945)

No 383 Maintenance Unit (9 Aug - 15 Sep 1945)

No 58 Maintenance Unit (15 Nov 1945 - 1 Apr 1947)

Sub-site, No 92 Maintenance Unit (1 Sep 1952 - 16 Dec 1954)

Sub-site, No 93 Maintenance Unit (xxx xxxx - Dec 1950)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 53:12:45N 00:36:00W

Grid Ref - SK925688

Height Above Sea Level - 60 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 5 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (15 Nov 1945 - 15 Nov 1947)

Station abandoned - 15 Nov 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Wickenby.

Notes

Initially a satellite of RAF Waddington, it became the second satellite of RAF Swinderby on 10 Apr 1942.

It was transferred to RAF Waddington as a satellite on 14 Nov 1942 and became a sub-station of No 53 Base from 14 Nov 1943 to 15 Nov 1945.

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RAF Skipton on Swale

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

420 Sqn (6 Aug - 15 Oct 1942)

Detachment - 427 Sqn (Apr - May 1943)

432 Sqn (1 May - 18 Sep 1943)

433 Sqn (25 Sep 1943 - 15 Oct 1945)

424 Sqn (6 Nov 1943 - 15 Oct 1945)

Sub Station , RAF Leeming (19 Dec 1943 - 1 May1944)

Sub Station, No 63 Base (1 May 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

Air Wing, Polish Resettlement Corps (10 Jul 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

300 Sqn (25 Nov 1946 - 2 Jan 1947)

RAF Regiment Sub Depot (xx xxx xxxx - 31 Dec 1949)

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 54:13:30N 01:25:45W

Grid Ref - SE373812

Height Above Sea Level - 90 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1942

No 4 Group (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Jan 1943)

No 6 (RCAF) Group (1 Jan 1943 - 10 Jul 1946)

TTC (10 Jul 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

C & M (31 Dec 1949 - 31 Mar 1950)

On 31 March 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Surplus status) in Transport Command, parented by RAF Topcliffe.

Transport Command (31 Mar 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

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RAF Snailwell

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

137 Sqn (24 Aug - 17 Sep 1942)

347th Fighter Sqn, USAAF (5 Oct - 8 Dec 1942)

RLG for No 22 Elementary Flying Training School (9 Nov - 9 Dec 1942)

181 Sqn (10 Dec 1942 - 1 Mar 1943, 8 - 24 Mar 1943)

182 Sqn (17 - 20 Jan 1943)

183 Sqn (8 - 12 Mar 1943)

170 Sqn (25 Mar - 26 Jun 1943)

309 Sqn (4 Jun - 6 Nov 1943, 24 Nov 1943 - 23 Apr 1944)

527 Sqn (2 - 13 Jul 1943, 28 Feb - 28 Apr 1944)

613 Sqn (14 Jul - 12 Oct 1943)

No 2 Heavy Glider Maintenance Unit (16 Aug 1943 - 15 Mar 1944)

184 Sqn (15 Sep - 17 Sep 1943)

No 3207 Servicing Commando (10 Oct - 6 Nov 1943)

247 Sqn (31 Oct - 5 Nov 1943)

No 5 (RCAF) Casualty Air Evacuation Unit (1 Jan - 14 Mar 1944)

No 417 Repair & Salvage Unit (1 Jan - 1 Mar 1944)

No 6309 (Polish) Servicing Echelon (22 Mar – 23 Apr 1944)

Temporary Storage/Accommodation, IX Army Air Force (15 May 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

RAF (Belgian) Training School (13 Oct 1944 - 13 Mar 1946)

No 3 Group Communication Flt (1 Mar 1945 - 21 Mar 1946)

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long: 52:16:08N 00:25:15W

Grid Ref - TL656665

Height Above Sea Level - 70 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1941

Fighter Command (xx xxx - 1 Feb 1941)

No 71 Group (1 Feb 1941 - 1 Jun 1943)

No 12 Group (1 Jun 1943 - 15 May 1944)

IX Air Force Service Command (15 May - 26 Jul 1944)

C & M (26 Jul - 13 Oct 1944)

No 28 Group (13 Oct 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Closed - 1 Jun 19461946

Notes

Main units: -

268 Sqn (1 Apr - 20 Jun 1941, 24 Jun - 21 Jul 1941, 27 Jul - 4 Aug 1941, 8 Aug - 28 Sep 1941, 1 Oct - 25 Nov 1941, 8 Dec 1941 - 20 May 1942, 2 Jun - 9 Aug 1942, 10 Mar - 31 May 1943)

241 Sqn (11 Jul 1941 - xxx xxxx)

152 Sqn (25 - 31 Aug 1941)

168 Sqn (15 Jun - 13 Jul 1942)

56 Sqn (30 Mar - 24 Aug 1942)

Detachments **

56 Sqn (10 - xx Aug 1941)

400 Sqn (Dec 1941 - xxx xxxx)

‘A’ Flt , 137 Sqn (17 Mar - 27 Apr 1942)

613 Sqn (9 - 11 Jun 1942)

13 Sqn (15 - 20 Jun 1942)

239 Sqn (Aug - Oct 1942)

614 Sqn (Aug - Nov 1942)

239 Sqn (2 - 14 Sep 1942)

296 Sqn (Oct 1942 - xxx xxxx)

297 Sqn (Oct 1942 - xxx xxxx)

614 Sqn (5 - 12 Oct 1942)

168 Sqn (5 - 27 Feb 1943)

318 Sqn (Jul 1943)

349 Sqn (7 - xx Aug 1943)

247 Sqn (3 Oct - 5 Nov 1943)

184 Sqn (31 Oct - 5 Nov 1943)

414 Sqn (31 Oct - 5 Nov 1943)

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RAF Snaith

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

150 Sqn (10 Jul 1941 - Oct 1942)

No 809 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2809 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

‘A’ Flt, Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment (5 - 16 Jun 1942)

51 Sqn (27 Oct 1942 - 20 Apr 1945)

Satellite, RAF Riccall (1 Nov 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

578 Sqn (14 Jan - 6 Feb 1944)

266 Sqn (27 Apr - 6 May 1944)

No 6266 Servicing Echelon (27 Apr – 6 May 1944)

No 17 Air Crew Holding Unit (20 Jun 1945 - 27 May 1946)

No 1516 (Beam Approach Training) Flt (1 - 15 Sep 1945)

No 1516 (Radio Aids Training) Flt (15 Sep 1945- 11 Apr 1946)

No 1508 (Radio Aids Training) Flt (20 Sep - 20 Nov 1945)

Detachment - 466 Sqn (Sep - Oct 1945)

Radar Flt (30 Oct 1945 - xxx xxxx)

No 1508 Acclimatisation Flt (20 Nov 1945 - 1 Apr 1946)

No 8 Section, 1552 (Radio Aids Training) Flt, (9 Apr - 29 Jul 1946)

No 1 Section, 1552 (Radio Aids Training) Flt, (13 Apr - 29 Jul 1946)

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 53:40:53N 01:05:00W

Grid Ref - SE605210

Height Above Sea Level - 33 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 30 Jun 1941

No 1 Group (30 Jun 1941 - 1 Nov 1942)

No 4 Group (1 Nov 1942 - 14 Sep 1946)

Transferred to the Home Office, Ministry of Health & Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - 11 Jan 1947

No 1 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15 Dec 1949)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Bomber Command, parented by RAF Lindholme, which it continued to do when transferred to TTC.

TTC (15 Dec 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

By 11 May 1950 it no longer required parenting.

Transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - xx xxx xxxx

Notes

On 1 November 1942 it became part of the Riccall/Snaith/Burn Clutch.

It was raised to Parent Station status on 15 February 1943 with Burn as its satellite.

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RAF Snetterton Heath

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

386th Bomb Group, USAAF (4 - 10 Jun 1943)

552nd Bomb Sqn
553rd Bomb Sqn
554th Bomb Sqn
555th Bomb Sqn

96th Bomb Group, USAAF (12 Jun 1943 - 12 Dec 1945)

337th Bomb Sqn
338th Bomb Sqn
339th Bomb Sqn
413th Bomb Sqn

RLG for No 3 Lancaster Finishing School (29 Dec 1943 - 10 May 1944)

Sub-site, No 262 Maintenance Unit (20 Dec 1945 - 30 Nov 1948)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 52:28:00N 00:57:15E

Grid Ref - TM005895

Height Above Sea Level - 150 ft

Railway Station - Eccles Road LNER

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a operational bomber station was issued in September 1941.

It is now a motor racing circuit.

Operational Control: -

Opened (C & M) - 1 Dec 1942

No 3 Group (1 Dec 1942 - 22 Mar 1943)

3rd Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (22 Mar - 19 Jul 1943)

2nd Bombardment Wing, USAAF (19 Jul; 1943 - 20 Dec 1945)

No 40 Group (20 Dec 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

At some point it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status), but by 1 July 1949 had been transferred to another Government department, etc.

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RAF Snettisham

No Badge authorised

Main units (USAAF): -

Moving Target School, USAAF (17 Feb 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

1st Combat Crew Gunnery School, USAAF

Air Division Gunnery School, USAAF

Bomber Command

RAF Combined Gunnery Range

Snettisham Moving Target Range (10 Jan 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 52:52:37N 00:30:07W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

VIII Air Force Composite Command (17 Feb - xx Sep 1944)

VIII Fighter Command (xx Sep 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Notes

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RAF Snitterfield

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Satellite, RAF Church Lawford (27 Apr 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

RLG for No 18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (7 May 1943 - 3 Apr 1945)

RAF (Belgian) Initial Training School [reception and training elements](1 Jan - 13 Oct 1944)

No 1533 Beam Approach Training Flt (Sep 1943 - May 1944)

No 18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (3 Apr - 29 May 1945)

No 21 Flying Training School (3 Apr 1945 - 18 Sep 1946)

RAF (Belgian) Technical Training School (Jan - Oct 1946)

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long: 52:14:15N 01:42:45W

Grid Ref - SP193598

Height Above Sea Level - 375 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (Satellite) - 27 Apr 1943

No 23 Group (27 Apr 1943 - 13 Jan 1947)

Closed - 13 Jan 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Church Lawford.

Notes

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RAF Soerabaya (Sourabaya)

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

321 Sqn det** (Apr - Oct 1945)

84 Sqn det** (Sep 1945 - Jan 1946)

Detachment, No 904 Wing (Oct - 23 Dec 1945)

60 Sqn det** (Oct - 1 Dec 1945)

60 Sqn (1 Dec 1945 - 12 May 1946)

No 7060 Servicing Echelon (1 Dec 1945 - 1 May 1946)

No 155 Staging Post (xx Jan - 24 Apr 1946)

656 Sqn det**(Jan - Nov 1946)

Location

Country: - Indonesia

Lat/Long: 7:13:20S 112:42:41E

Height above sea level: 9 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 23 Dec 1945

AHQ Netherlands East Indies (23 Dec 1945 - 24 Apr 1946)

SHQ disbanded - 14 May 1946

Notes.

Originally known as Morokrembangan Naval Air Base

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RAF Sopley

Main units: -

Ground Controlled Interception Station (xxx 1940 - xxx 1946)

No 21 (Base Defence) Sector (12 May - 2 Jun 1944)

HQ No 21 Wing (26 Apr - 12 May 1944)

Master GCI Station (xxx 1946 - 1 Nov 1951)

Reserve Sector Operations Control Centre (xxx 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

HQ Southern Sector (1 Sep 1947 - 14 Jul 1950)

No 227 Signals Unit (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

School of Fighter Control (31 Oct 1958 - xx Apr 1960)

No 3617 (County of Hampshire) Fighter Control Unit

No 15 Signals Unit (28 Oct 1959 -

Joint Air Traffic Control Area Radar School (xx Sep 1960 - xx xxx 1969)

Military Air Traffic Control Area Radar School (xx xxx 1969 - xx Aug 1972)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long:

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level -

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx Dec 1940

see Members' Area

Closed - 27 Sep 1974

Notes

For details of Radar equipment - see Members' Area

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RAF Sorman

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 53 Repair and Salvage Unit (16 - 23 Mar 1943, 16 Jul - 15 Aug 1943)

HQ, No 7 (SAAF) Wing (18 May - 11 Aug 1943)

No 53 Refuelling and Rearming Party (17 Jul - 20 Aug 1943)

No 4 Aircraft Delivery Unit (19 Jul - 5 Nov 1943)

No 40 Personnel Transit Centre (xx Jul - 14 Oct 1943)

No 117 Maintenance Unit (21 Jul - 14 Nov 1943)

Sorman West: -

No 2 Repair and Salvage Unit (9 - 23 Mar 1943, 28 Apr - 24 Jun 1943)

No 59 Repair and Salvage Unit (16 Mar - 9 Apr 1943)

No 52 Refuelling and Rearming Party (28 Apr - 17 Jul 1943)

HQ, No 275 Wing (20 May - 8 Jul 1943)

HQ, No 285 Wing (21 May - 17 Jul 1943)

Communication Unit, Western Desert (20 May - 16 Jul 1943)

No 1437 Flight (25 May - 3 Jun 1943)

No 108 Repair and Salvage Unit (24 Jun - 30 Sep 1943)

Location

Country: - Libya

Lat/Long:

Height above sea level: ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx Jul 1943

No 214 Group (xx Jul - xx Nov 1943)

Closed - xx Nov 1943

Notes.

In July 1943 all the units at Azizia had moved to Sorman, so the SHQ Azizia was moved to Sorman to become RAF Sorman.

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RAF South Cerney

Main units (continued): -

No 23 Group Communication Flt (10 Oct 1939 - 1 Oct 1946)

Element of No 15 Service Flying Training School (11 Jun - 31 Aug 1940)

Ground Defence Sqn (Apr - 19 Dec1941)

No 27 Group Communication Flt (27 May 1941 - 1 May 1944)

No 1519 Beam Approach Training Flt (Nov - Dec 1941)

No 788 Ground Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - xxx 1942)

No 3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (1Mar 1942 - 17 Dec 1945)

No 1539 Beam Approach Training Flt (15 Apr - 13 Jul 1943, 15 Nov 1944 - 1 Jun 1945)

No 3 Service Flying Training School (17 Dec 1945 - 24 Apr 1946)

Detachment - No 7 Flying Instructors School (29 Apr - 7 May 1946)

Flying Training Command Instructors School (24 May 1946 - 28 Feb 1947)

Air Crew Transit Unit (15 Oct 1947 - May 1948)

No 2 Flying Training School (6 Apr 1948 - 1 May 1952)

Central Flying School (Basic) (1 May 1952 - 1 Jun 1957)

No 1 Initial Training School (22 Jul 1957 - 1 Jan 1957)

Primary Flying Sqn (xxx xxxx - 16 Jan 1967)

No 625 Volunteer Gliding School (2 Jun 1958 - 30 Jun 1993)

Helicopter Communications Flt (1 Dec 1960 - 5 Jan 1961)

Aircrew Officers Training School (1 Jan 1967 - 21 Jan 1968)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long: 51:41:20N 01:55:15W

Grid Ref: SU056986

Height above sea level: 350 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1937

No 23 Group (1944)

Closed - 21 Jan 1968

Notes

Currently in use by the Army

Main units: -

HQ, No 23 Group (10 Oct 1939 - 28 Sep 1946)

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RAF Southend

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Main units (continued): -

No 1488 (Fighter) Gunnery Flt (May - 7 Jun 1942, 17 Aug - 18 Oct 1943)

121 Sqn (3 Jun - 23 Sep 1942)

19 Sqn (16 - 20 Aug 1942)

350 Sqn (23 Sep - 8 Dec 1942, 13 - 31 Oct 1943)

453 Sqn (7 Dec 1942 - 1 Mar 1943, 14 - 27 Mar 1943)

137 Sqn (12 Jun - 8 Aug 1943)

No 616 (AAF) Servicing Echelon (6 – 13 Sep 1943)

234 Sqn (16 Sep - 15 Oct 1943)

No 3038 Servicing Echelon (20 Sep – 11 Oct 1943)

No 17 Armament Practice Camp (18 Oct 1943 - 7 Aug 1944)

349 Sqn (26 Oct - 10 Nov 1943)

66 Sqn (16 - 30 Nov 1943, 22 - 25 Apr 1944)

No 148 Gliding School (Nov 1943 - 16 Jun 1949)

317 Sqn (2 - 18 Dec 1943)

'C' Section, No 3209 Servicing Commando (12 Dec 1943 - 1 Feb 1944)

No 413 (Polish) Repair & Salvage Unit (3 Jan - 15 Mar 1944)

124 Sqn (5 - 18 Jan 1944)

501 Sqn (21 Jan - 4 Feb 1944)

No 3037 Servicing Echelon (21 Jan - 4 Feb 1944)

41 Sqn (6 - 20 Feb 1944)

312 Sqn (22 Feb - 3 Mar 1944)

331 Sqn (5 - 13 Mar 1944)

No 2766 Sqn, RAF Regiment (15 Mar - xx xxx 1944)

332 Sqn (21 - 27 Mar 1944)

310 Sqn (28 Mar - 3 Apr 1944)

No 3016 (Eagle) Servicing Echelon (6 – 20 Feb 1944)

No 6310 (Czech) Servicing Echelon (28 Mar – 3 Apr 1944)

302 Sqn (12 - 14 Apr 1944)

No 6302 Servicing Echelon (12 – 14 Apr 1944)

No 6066 Servicing Echelon (22 – 25 Apr 1944)

122 Sqn (20 - 28 May 1944)

65 Sqn (28 May - 4 Jun 1944)

No 6122 Servicing Echelon (21 - 28 May 1944)

127 Sqn (12 - 23 Jul 1944)

No 6127 Servicing Echelon (12 – 23 Jul 1944)

No 6074 Servicing Echelon (26 Jul - 6 Aug 1944)

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long: 51:34:15N 00:42:08E

Grid Ref - TQ872895

Height Above Sea Level - 25 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1916

Opened (RAF) - xx xxx 1939

SHQ Opened - 8 Nov 1940

No 12 Group (8 Nov 1940 - 27 Sep 1944)

No 24 Balloon Centre (27 Sep 1944 - 1 Apr 1945)

No 43 Group (1 Apr 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

Closed - 1 Jun 1946

Notes

Approval for the acquisition of this airfield was issued in September 1939.

Until October 1940, the station was a satellite of RAF Hornchurch

Main Units:-

No 34 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School (1 Jan - 3 Sep 1939)

74 Sqn (22 - 29 Oct 1939, 3 - 14 Nov 1939, 2 - 16 Dec 1939, 14 Feb - 23 Mar 1940, 20 Apr - 27 May 1940, 6 - 25 Jun 1940, 24 Jul - 6 Aug 1944)

54 Sqn (28 Oct - 3 Nov 1939, 17 Nov - 2 Dec 1939, 16 - 29 Dec 1939, 16 Jan - 4 Feb 1940, 23 Mar - 20 Apr 1940, 25 Jun - 24 Jul 1940, 31 Mar - 20 May 1941)

600 Sqn (16 - 20 Oct 1939)

616 Sqn (27 May - 6 Jun 1940)

264 Sqn (27 - 28 Aug 1940, 29 Oct - 27 Nov 1940)

603 Sqn (3 - 13 Dec 1940, 16 Jun - 8 Jul 1941)

611 Sqn (14 Dec 1940 - 27 Jan 1941, 20 May - 16 Jun 1941, 6 Sep - 13 Sep 1943)

64 Sqn (27 Jan - 31 Mar 1941, 31 Mar - 1 May 1942)

222 Sqn (19 Jul - 18 Aug 1941, 27 Mar - 1 Apr 1943, 4 Apr - 11 Apr 1944)

402 Sqn (19 Aug - 6 Nov 1941)

No 3047 (RCAF) Servicing Echelon (6 Feb - 6 Mar 1942)

313 Sqn (7 Feb - 6 Mar 1942, 14 - 20 Mar 1944)

No 1488 (Target Towing) Flt (9 Feb - May 1942)

411 Sqn (7 Mar - 1 Apr 1942)

403 Sqn (2 May - 3 Jun 1942)

No 3046 (RCAF) Servicing Echelon (2 May 1942 – 6 Jan 1943)

Detachments**

151 Sqn (5 Aug 1940 - xxx xxxx)

56 Sqn (Aug 1940 - xxx xxxx)

41 Sqn (Jul 1940 - xxx xxxx)

222 Sqn (Nov 1940 - xxx xxxx)

453 Sqn (2 - 9 Oct 1942)

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (xxx - 18 Sep 1943)

287 Sqn (Aug 1943 - xxx 1944)

291 Sqn (21 Mar - 21 May 1944)

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RAF Southampton

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Main units (Southampton): -

‘B’ Flt , 820 Sqn (20 Jul - 16 Nov 1936)

821 Sqn (20 Jul - 1 Sep 1936, 4 Nov 1936 - 19 Jan 1937, 22 Mar - 28 May 1937, 20 Aug - 7 Oct 1937, 27 Oct 1937 - 10 Jan 1938, 29 Mar - 2 May 1938, 23 - 29 Jul 1938, 8 Aug -6 Sep 1938, 17 Nov 1938 - 11 Jan 1939, 24 Mar - 29 Apr 1939)

820 Sqn (17 Nov 1936 - 19 Jan 1937, 22 Mar - 24 May 1937, 19 - 25 Jun 1937, 22 - 26 Jul 1937, 7 Aug - 3 Sep 1937, 1 Nov 1937 - 10 Jan 1938, 29 Mar - 2 May 1938, 23 Jul - 9 Sep 1938, 27 Oct 1938 - 11 Jan 1939, 24 Mar - 27 Apr 1939

Detachment - 48 Sqn (19 - 21 Jan 1937)

802 Sqn (5 May - 23 Jun 1937)

22 Sqn (14 Jun - xxx 1937, 18 Jul - xxx 1937, 17 Sep -28 Oct 1937)

810 Sqn (13 - 27 Jul 1937, 29 Mar - 10 May 1938, 9 - 18 Jul 1938, 23 - 26 Jul 1938, 6 Aug - 6 Sep 1938, 27 Oct 1938 - 11 Jan 1939, 24 Mar - 27 Apr 1939)

42 Sqn (17 Sep 1937 28 Oct 1937

224 Sqn (17 Jan 1938 26 Mar 1938

269 Sqn (17 Jan 1938 24 Mar 1938

814 Sqn (1 Dec 1938 - 11 Jan 1939, 24 Mar - 2 Jun 1939)

48 Sqn (16 - 19 Jan 1939)

811’A’ Sqn (15 - 24 May 1939)

822 ‘A’ Sqn (15 May - 1 Jul 1939)

No 2 Air Stores Park (12 - 16 Sep 1939)

No 15 Sector (21 - 22 Jun 1944)

Southampton University Air Sqn (18 Oct 1946 - 1 Oct 1947)

Location

County: - Hampshire

Lat/Long: 50:57:00N 01:21:35W

Grid Ref - SU452168

Height Above Sea Level - 37 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1917

Transferred to the Royal Navy - 1939

Notes

Originally called Eastleigh, its name was changed in 1936 to avoid confusion with Eastleigh in Kenya. It is now Southampton Airport

Main units (Eastleigh): -

Aircraft Acceptance Park Eastleigh (1 Apr - 23 Jul 1918)

Aircraft Construction Service (Jul 1919 - xxx xxxx)

201 Sqn [cadre] (2 Sep - 31 Dec 1919)

45 Sqn [cadre] (15 Sep - 31 Dec 1919)

101 Sqn [cadre] (12 Oct - 31 Dec 1919)

28 Sqn [cadre] (20 Oct 1919 - 20 Jan 1920)

7 Sqn [cadre] (27 Oct - 19 Nov 1919)

School of Aerial Gunnery & Bombing (Apr 1920 - 1 Apr 1922)

801 Sqn (23 Nov 1935 - 2 Jan 1936, 21 May - 12 Jun 1936, 20 Jul - 28 Sep 1936, 23 Oct 1936 - 20 Jan 1937, 29 Mar - 24 May 1937, 21 Jul - 26 Jul 1937, 9 Aug - 10 Sep 1937, 28 Oct 1937 - 1 Jan 1938)

822 Sqn (21 May - 17 Jun 1936, 20 Jul - 28 Sep 1936, 23 Oct 1936 - 23 Jan 1937)

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RAF Spadeadam

Operational Control: -

Opened: - 12 May 1976

No 1 Group

Notes

Location

County: - Cumbria

Lat/Long: 55:01:30N 02:36:08W

Main units: -

Electronic Warfare Tactics Range (12 May 1976 - Current)

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RAF Spanhoe

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Main units: -

315th Troop Carrier Group, USAAF (7 Feb 1944 - 6 Apr 1945)

34th Troop Carrier Sqn (7 Feb 1944 - 6 Apr 1945)
43rd Troop Carrier Sqn (7 Feb 1944 - 6 Apr 1945)
309th Troop Carrier Sqn (21 Apr 1944 - 6 Apr 1945)
310th Troop Carrier Sqn (21 Apr 1944 - 6 Apr 1945)

No 253 Maintenance Unit (8 Jul 1945 - 15 Apr 1947)

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long: 52:34:00N 00:37:00W

Grid Ref: SP935970/141

Height above sea level: 340 ft

Railway Station

Seaton (passengers) LMS
Wakerley (goods) LMS

Operational Control: -

Opened - 2 Jan 1944

IX Troop Carrier Command Substitution Unit (2 Jan 1944 - xx xxx 1945)

9th Air Force (xx xxx xxxx - 8 May 1945)

Bomber Command (8 May 1945 - 1 Jun 1945)

Maintenance Command (1 Jun 1945 - 1 Dec 1947)

Station abandoned 1 Dec 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Reserve Command, parented by RAF Cottesmore.

Notes

It was originally requisitioned under the name Harringworth in 1942 but this was changed in August 1942 to Wakerley to avoid confusion with RAF Harrington. However, it was changed again in early 1944 to Spanhoe.

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RAF Speke

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Main units (continued): -

229 Sqn (22 Dec 1940 - 10 May 1941)

No 1 Aircraft Assembly Unit (1940 - 1945)

No 77 Wing Calibration Flt (17 Feb 1941- 9 Jun 1943)

No 1 Supplementary School of Technical Training (31 Mar - 5 May 1941)

315 Sqn (13 Mar - 16 Jul 1941)

303 Sqn (16 Jul - 7 Oct 1941)

306 Sqn (7 Oct - 12 Dec 1941)

829 Sqn FAA (9 - 24 Feb 1942)

776 Sqn FAA (18 Oct 1942 - 7 Apr 1945)

Liverpool University Air Sqn (12 Jan 1941 - 30 Jun 1946)

RLG for No 57 OTU (Apr - May 1941)

No 9 Group Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flt (5 May - 9 Aug 1941)

Merchant Ship Fighter Unit (5 May 1941 - 7 Sep 1943)

Catapult Development & Training Establishment (1941)

No 1 Calibration Flt (6 Nov 1942 - xxx xxxx)

73 Wing Calibration Flt (6 - 18 Nov 1942)

15 Group Communication Flt (15 Dec 1942 - 1 Aug 1945)

Special Servicing Party American Aircraft (xxx 1943 - xxx xxxx)

1832 Sqn FAA (20 Sep - 9 Dec 1943)

849 Sqn FAA (17 - 25 Nov 1943)

1834 Sqn FAA (19 - 22 Nov 1943, 20 Dec 1943 - 1 Feb 1944)

No 186 Gliding School (Jun 1944 - Mar 1947)

1820 Sqn FAA (24 Jul - 11 Aug 1944)

‘Y’ Flt, 787 Sqn FAA (12 Nov 1944 - 15 Jan 1945)

‘B’ Flt, 736 Sqn FAA (1 - 11 Mar 1945)

Location

County: - Lancashire (Merseyside)

Lat/Long: 53:20:38N 02:52:45W

Grid Ref - SJ414833

Height Above Sea Level - 65 ft

Railway Stations

Liverpool Exchange LMS
Liverpool Central CLC

Operational Control: -

SHQ Opened (C & M) - 24 Aug 1939

No 12 Group (24 Aug 1939 - 24 Jun 1940)

No 22 Group (24 Jun - 16 Sep 1940)

No 9 Group (16 Sep 1940 - 1 Aug 1944)

Transferred to DGCA as a civil airport - 1 Aug 1944

Notes

Originally opened as Liverpool Airport it is now know as John Lennon Airport, although the new runway and terminal are not on the original site.

Main Units: -

611 Sqn (6 May 1936 - 13 Aug 1939, 10 May - 26 Jun 1946)

RLG for No 5 Flying Training School (Mar 1939 - Mar 1940)

144 Sqn (6 - 9 Sep 1939)

236 Sqn (23 Apr - 25 May 1940 )

13 Sqn (17 Jun - 13 Jul 1940)

No 8 Radio Maintenance Unit (1 Jul - 21 Sep 1940)

308 Sqn (9 - 25 Sep 1940)

No 8 Radio Servicing Section (21 Sep 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

312 Sqn (26 Sep 1940 - 3 Mar 1941)

Detachments**

96 Sqn (18 Dec 1940 - xxx 1941)

776 Sqn (22 Mar 1941 - 18 Oct 1942)

116 Sqn (31 Mar 1941 - xxx xxxx)

605 Sqn (14 - 18 Jul 1941)

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RAF Spilsby

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Main units: -

Satellite, RAF East Kirkby (20 Sep - 24 Nov 1943)

207 Sqn (xx Oct 1943 - 30 Oct 1945)

Sub Station, RAF East Kirkby (24 Nov 1943 - 15 Apr 1944)

No 1 Flt, No 2751 Sqn RAF Regiment (24 Feb 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Sub Station, No 55 Base (15 Apr 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

No 5 Group AA School (15 May - 25 Aug 1944)

44 Sqn (30 Sep 1944 - 21 Jul 1945)

75 Sqn (21 Jul 1945 - 15 Oct 1945)

No 2 APS (2 Dec 1945 - 1 May 1946)

129 Sqn (7 Jan - 9 Feb 1946)

264 Sqn (7 Jan - 8 Feb 1946)

29 Sqn (9 Feb - 21 Mar 1946)

65 Sqn (9 Feb - 14 Mar 1946)

219 Sqn (25 Mar - 16 Apr 1946)

222 Sqn (25 Mar - 16 Apr 1946)

MAEE det (Highball Trials) (1 Apr - 1 Jul 1946)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 53:09:45N 00:10:15 E

Grid Ref - TF 450645/122

Height Above Sea Level: 33'

Railway Station - Firsby Junction LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 20 Sep 1943

No 5 Group (20 Sep 1943 - 26 Nov 1945)

No 12 Group (26 Nov 1945 - 30 Sep 1946)

Care & Maintenance (26 Apr 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Bomber Command (30 Sep 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Bomber Command, parented by RAF Coningsby.

USAAF (15 Jun 1955 - 11 Mar 1958)

Closed - 1958

Notes

Initially opened as a satellite of East Kirkby, it was upgraded to a Sub-Station of RAF East Kirkby on 24 November 1943, which in turn became No 55 Base (East Kirkby) from 15 April 1944 until 15 November 1945.

It became a self-accounting unit on 1 April 1945.

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RAF Spitalgate/Spittlegate

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Main units (continued): -

HQ No 3 Group (10 Nov 1919 - 31 Aug 1921)

No 3 (Training) Group Navigation School (10 Nov 1919 - xxx xxxx)

43 Sqn (25 Aug - 31 Dec 1919)

70 Sqn (3 Sep 1919 - 22 Jan 1920)

HQ No 3 Group (10 Nov 1919 - 31 Aug 1921)

No 3 (Training) Group Navigation School (10 Nov 1919 - xxx xxxx)

202 Sqn [cadre] (Dec 1919 - 22 Jan 1920)

100 Sqn (4 Feb 1922 - May 1924, Jul 1924 - 17 Jun 1926, 30 Aug 1926 - 10 Jan 1928)

39 Sqn (8 Feb 1923 - 21 Jan 1928)

HQ No 3 (Training) Group (1 Apr 1923 - 12 Apr 1926)

No 3 Flying Training School (1 Apr 1928 - 16 Aug 1937)

HQ No 23 (Training) Group (7 Oct 1937 - xx xxx xxxx)

Recruits' Sub-Depot (11 Jul 1938 - 28 Sep 1939)

No 12 Flying Training School (1 Dec 1938 - 3 Sep 1939)

113 Sqn (31 Aug 1937 - 30 Apr 1938)

211 Sqn (2 Sep 1937 - 12 May 1938)

185 Sqn (27 Sep - 15 Oct 1937)

HQ Observer Corp, Midland Area (8 Mar 1938 - xx xxx xxxx)

106 Sqn (26 Sep - 14 Oct 1938)

No 5 Group Communication Flt (xxx 1938 - 14 Nov 1943)

No 12 Service Flying Training School (3 Sep 1939 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 23 Group Communication Flt (Sep - 10 Oct 1939)

No 793 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2793 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - 4 Apr 1942)

No 12 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (1 Apr 1942 - 8 Feb 1945)

No 1536 (Beam Approach Training) Flt (8 Mar 1943 - 8 May 1945)

No 3226 Servicing Commando (8 Apr - 1 May 1943)

No 1544 (Beam Approach Training) Flt (Mar - 30 Aug 1944)

No 21 Group Communication Flt (12 Jul 1944 - 1 May 1947)

No 7 Group Communication Flt (24 Mar - 21 Dec 1945)

No 1 Flying Training School (18 Jun 1947 - 25 Feb 1948)

No 29 Gliding School (Mar 1948 - 1 Sep 1955)

RAF Officer Cadet Training Unit* (Jun 1948 - Mar 1954)

Mess Staff School (Sep 1949 - Aug 1957)

RLG for RAF College (11 Jan 1951 - 13 Mar 1961)

RLG for No 7 Flying Training School (11 Feb 1952 - Apr 1954)

HQ No 24 Group (Mar 1954 - Aug 1957)

RAF School of Education (xxx 1955 - xxx 1958)

No 44 Gliding School (1 Jul - 1 Sep 1955)

No 644 Volunteer Gliding School (1 Sep 1955 - 31 Jan 1975)

No 2 Gliding Centre (25 Oct 1956 - 9 Aug 1971)

Secretarial Officers' School (xxx 1959 - xxx 1960)

HQ No 3 Police District (xxx 1959 - xxx 1960)

WRAF Depot (xxx 1960 - Mar 1974)

Central Gliding School (9 Aug 1971 - 31 Jan 1975)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 52:54:00N 00:36:00W

Grid Ref - SK935342

Height Above Sea Level - 415 ft

Railway station - Grantham LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1916

No 23 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 13 Jul 1937)

SHQ RAF Grantham opened - 13 Jul 1937

No 3 Group (13 Jul 1937 - 1 Sep 1937)

No 5 Group (1 Sep 1937 - 15 Aug 1938)

Care & Maintenance (1 Jun 1938 - 11 Jul 1938)

No 23 Group (15 Aug - 28 Sep 1938)

No 5 Group (28 Sep 1938 - 19 Oct 1938)

No 23 Group (19 Oct 1938 - xx xxx 1942)

No 21 Group (xx xxx 1942 - 25 Feb 1948)

No 22 Group (25 Feb 1948 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - 1 Oct 1949*

Closed -

Notes

Originally known as Spittlegate, it was renamed Grantham in 1928, and then Spitalgate on 29 March 1944,

*On 1 October 1949, the RAF OCTU became the commanding unit.

(which was re-spelt as Spitlegate on 9 February 1953.)?

Main Units: -

No 49 Reserve Sqn (14 Nov 1916 - 31 May 1917)

83 Sqn (15 Jan - 15 Sep 1917)

No 86 (Canadian) Reserve Sqn (9 Feb - 16 Apr 1917)

No 11 (Reserve) Sqn (14 Apr - 1 Jun 1917)

HQ, 24th (Training) Wing (24 Mar 1917 - xxx 1918)

No 49 Training Sqn (1 Jun - 15 Sep 1917)

91 Sqn (1 - 14 Sep 1917)

106 Sqn (12 Sep - 3 Oct 1917)

No 15 Training Sqn (15 Sep 1917 - 15 Aug 1918)

No 20 Training Sqn (15 Sep - 27 Nov 1917)

No 37 Training Sqn (15 Sep 1917 - 15 Aug 1918)

No 50 Reserve Sqn (30 Nov 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

9th Aero Sqn, USAAS (28 Dec 1917 - 7 Aug 1918)

50th Aero Sqn, USAAS (4 Feb - 3 Jul 1918)

174th Aero Sqn, USAAS ( Jul 1918 - xxx xxxx)

No 39 Training Depot Station (15 Aug 1918 - 14 Mar 1919)

Detachment - 43rd Aero Sqn, USAAS (24 Aug - 14 Oct 1918)

No 39 Training Sqn (14 Mar - 24 Nov 1919)

29 Sqn [cadre] (10 Aug - 31 Dec 1919)

43 Sqn (25 Aug - 31 Dec 1919)

70 Sqn (3 Sep 1919 - 22 Jan 1920)

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RAF Squires Gate

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Main units (continued): -

No 9 Civil Air Navigation School (25 Sep - 1 Nov 1939)

‘C’ Flt, 63 Sqn (Sep 1939)

No 9 Air Observer & Navigation School (1 Nov 1939 - 27 May 1940)

No 2 School of General Reconnaissance (28 May - 16 Dec 1940)

No 1 School of General Reconnaissance (11 Jul - 30 Sep 1940)

308 Sqn (5 - 12 Sep 1940)

No 3 School of General Reconnaissance (16 Dec 1940 - 26 Aug 1945)

307 Sqn (27 Jan - 26 Mar 1941)

256 Sqn (26 Mar 1941 - 1 Jun 1942)

'R' Flt, No 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (xx - 13 Sep 1941)

RLG for No 3 Operational Training Unit (8 - 23 Mar 1942 1941)

Flying element, School of Sea Rescue (3 May 1943 - 12 Feb 1945)

No 1510 Flt (15 Aug 1944 - 31 Aug 1945)

No 23 Personnel Transit Centre (1 Jul - 1 Dec 1952)

Location

County: - Lancashire

Lat/Long: 53:46:15N 03:02:00W

Grid Ref - SD317311

Height Above Sea Level - 33 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx xxx 1939 (RAF Station)

No 22 Group (10 Feb 1940 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 17 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Dec 1945)

Transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation - 1 Dec 1945

Notes

It is now Blackpool Airport.

Main Units: -

'F' Flt, No 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (28 Apr 1939 - 7 Jan 1942)

No 42 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School (1 Aug - 3 Sep 1939)

Detachments**

75 Sqn (Sep 1939 - Apr 1940)

215 Sqn (Nov 1939 Jan 1940

No 17 Operational Training Unit (8 Apr - Jun 1940)

307 Sqn (19 Jan - 27 Jan 1941)

96 Sqn (Mar - Sep 1941)

285 Sqn (xxx xxxx - 14 Apr 1942)

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RAF Stafford

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Main units: -

No 7 Stores Depot (xxx 1938 - 1 Dec 1939)

No 16 Maintenance Unit (1 Dec 1939 - 31 Mar 2006)

Location

County: - Staffordshire

Lat/Long: 52:49:30N 02:05:60W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Closed - 31 Mar 2006

Notes

In 2006 it became MoD Stafford

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RAF St Angelo

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Main units (MAP): -

No 18 Satellite Landing Ground (6 Jun - 15 Sep 1941)

Main units (RAF): -

No 836 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

153 Sqn (Oct - Dec 1941)

No 2836 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1943)

Detachment - No 131 Operational Training Unit (20 Jul 1942 - 28 Jun 1945)

824 Sqn (28 Sep - 27 Oct 1943)

Detachment - 235 Sqn (xxx xxxx - 20 Jan 1944, 5 Feb 1944 - xxx xxxx)

235 Sqn (21 Feb - 27 Mar 1944)

422 Sqn (3 Nov 1943 - 13 Apr 1944)

No 12 Flying Instructors School (1 May 1944 - 23 Feb 1945)

Coastal Command Flying Instructors School (23 Feb - 9 Jun 1945)

No 106 Storage Sub-Site, No 272 Maintenance Unit (1 Aug 1945 - 28 Feb 1947)

No 13 Flt AAC Aldergrove Nov 1959 Mar 1960

Location

County: - County Fermanagh

Lat/Long: 54:24:00N 07:39:07W

Grid Ref - H230500

Height Above Sea Level - 165 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 25 Sep 1941

No 82 Group (25 Sep 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 17 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Aug 1945)

Maintenance Command (1 Aug 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Coastal Command, parented by RAF Castle Archdale.

Notes

It was transferred from MAP to the Air Ministry on 15 Sep 1941

It is now Enniskillen Airport.

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RAF/MOD St Athan

Main units (continued): -

Central Trade Test Board

No 9 Aircraft Storage Unit (xxx 1938 - 7 Feb 1939)

No 4 School of Technical Training* (1 Sep 1938 - xxx xxxx)

No 19 Maintenance Unit (7 Feb 1939 - 1 Nov 1968/7 Apr 1999)

No 32 Maintenance Unit (1 Jul 1939 - 1 Nov 1968/7 Apr 1999)

No 11 Group Pool (1 Jul 1939 - 9 Mar 1940)

No 4 Air Stores Park (26 Aug - 15 Sep 1939)

No 5 Air Stores Park (26 Aug - 16 Sep 1939)

School of Air Navigation (2 Sep 1939 - Jun 1940)

No 1 School of Air Navigation (Jun - 12 Oct 1940)

Pilotless Aircraft Sect/Unit (22 Jun 1940 - 5 May 1942)

No 5 Salvage Centre (18 - 24 Sep 1939)

Special Duty Flt (14 Nov 1939 - 27 Apr 1940)

No 417 Flt (15 Jul - 1 Oct 1940, 24 Feb - 1 Mar 1941)

'U' Flt, No 1 AACU (15 Aug - 15 Sep 1940)

No 1417 Flt (1 - 18 Mar 1941)

No 12 Radio School (1 Sep 1943 - 7 Mar 1946)

No 14 Radio School (1 Jun 1944 - 7 Mar 1946)

Signals Instructor School (1 Jun 1944 - xxx xxxx)

Aeronautical Inspection School (29 Jan 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 68 Gliding School (Mar 1947 - 1 Sep 1955)

Special Installation Flt (29 Feb 1948 - 5 Oct 1953)

No 634 Volunteer Gliding School (1 Sep 1955 - 1 May 1964, 1 Oct 1964 - Current)

University of Wales Air Sqn (26 Aug 1963 - Current)

Aircraft Recovery and Transportation Flt (1991 - Current?)

Location

County: - Glamorganshire

Lat/Long: 51:24:30N 03:26:00W

Grid Ref: ST005685

Height above sea level: 50ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - Feb 1939

SHQ opened - xx xxx xxxx

SHQ closed - 1 Oct 1949*

Personnel & Training Command (2006)

Ceased to be RAF Station - 1 Jul 2006

Notes

*On 1 October 1949, No 4 SoTT became the commanding unit.

On 1 Jul 2006, the station was renamed MOD St Athan to reflect the diversity of units based at the station.

The RAF element at the station finally departed in September/October 2023.

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RAF St Davids

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Main units: -

517 Sqn (26 Nov 1943 - 1 Feb 1944)

58 Sqn (6 Dec 1943 - 28 Aug 1944)

502 Sqn (10 Dec 1943 - 11 Sep 1944)

General Reconnaissance Aircraft Preparation Pool (1 Oct 1944 - Jan 1946)

220 Sqn (30 May - 22 Sep 1945)

No 4220 Servicing Echelon (25 Jun - 22 Sep 1945)

53 Sqn (1 Jun - 17 Sep 1945)

No 4053 Servicing Echelon (25 Jun – 17 Sep 1945)

Detachment - 787 Sqn FAA (22 Apr - 24 Jul 1952)

Location

County: - Pembrokeshire

Lat/Long: 51:53:10N 05:12:45W

Grid Ref - SM790256

Height Above Sea Level - 250 ft

Railway Station - Haverfordwest GWR

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Sep 1943

No 19 Group (1 Sep 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Loaned to other Government Departments - xx xxx xxxx

Transferred to the Admiralty - 1 Apr 1947

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for Haverfordwest was issued in September 1941.

Its use was later changed to that of a Coastal Command OTU parent station. During construction it was transferred to Fighter Command for use by No 60 OTU, but was found unsuitable and it reverted to Coastal Command.

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RAF St Eval

Main units (continued): -

No 719 (Ground Defence) Sqn (19 Dec 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2782 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - Jul 1945)

224 Sqn (20 Dec 1941 - 19 Feb 1942, 23 Apr 1943 - 11 Sep 1944, 26 Jul 1945 - 10 Nov 1947)

86 Sqn (10 Jan - 5 Mar 1942)

502 Sqn (22 Feb 1942 - 2 Mar 1943, 25 Mar - 30 Jun 1943)

58 Sqn (8 Apr - 30 Aug 1942, 31 Mar - 29 Jun 1943)

415 Sqn (11 Apr - 16 May 1942)

500 Sqn (30 Aug - 5 Nov 1942)

407 Sqn (1 Oct - 10 Nov 1942, 3 Nov - 2 Dec 1943)

‘C’ Flt, 543 Sqn (19 Oct 1942 - 18 Oct 1943)

517 Sqn (7 Aug - 25 Nov 1943)

143 Sqn (28 Aug - 16 Sep 1943)

612 Sqn (1 Nov - 3 Dec 1943)

407 Sqn (3 Nov - 2 Dec 1943)

409th Bomb Sqn, USAAF (Oct - Nov 1942)

1st Anti-Submarine Sqn (Prov), USAAF (10 Nov 1942 - 13 Jan 1943)

833 Sqn FAA (11 Mar -15 Apr 1943)

479th Anti-Submarine Group, USAAF (8 Jul - 6 Aug 1943)

VP-105, USN (1 Aug - 12 Oct 1943)

VP-103, USN (17 - 30 Aug 1943)

VP-110 USN (1 Sep - 30 Oct 1943)

‘A’ Flt, Signals Development Unit (24 Sep 1943 - xxx xxxx)

VP-111, USN (1 Oct - 4 Nov 1943, 13 - 21 Jul 1944)

547 Sqn (14 Jan - 1 Oct 1944)

849 Sqn FAA (9 - 26 Aug 1944)

282 Sqn (19 Sep 1944 - 9 Jul 1945)

179 Sqn (1 Nov 1944 - 30 Sep 1946)

820 Sqn FAA (11 - 18 Nov 1944)

304 Sqn (6 Mar - 9 Jul 1945)

No 4301 (Polish) Servicing Echelon (Apr – 2 Jul 1945)

No 4304 (Polish) Servicing Echelon (14 Jun – 9 Jul 1945)

No 95 Gliding School (Jun 1945 - 31 Jan 1950)

210 Sqn (1 Jun 1946 - 10 Sep 1952)

228 Sqn (1 Jun - 30 Sep 1946, 1 Jul 1954 - 29 Nov 1956, 14 Jan 1958 - 6 Mar 1959)

203 Sqn (16 Jan 1947 - 15 Aug 1952)

No 19 Group Communications Flt (29 Jul 1948 - 27 Aug 1951)

807 Sqn FAA (20 - 23 Aug 1949)

220 Sqn (14 Nov 1951 - 4 Dec 1956)

240 Sqn (27 May - 5 Jun 1952)

42 Sqn (28 Jun 1952 - 8 Oct 1958)

206 Sqn B ()

Towed Target Flt (xxx 1953 - Sep 1955)

228 Sqn (1 Jul 1954 - 4 Dec 1956, 14 Jan 1958 1 Apr 1959)

No 626 Volunteer Gliding School (1 Jun 1958 - 16 Mar 1963)

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 50:28:38N 04:59:45W

Grid Ref: SW875685

Height above sea level: 340ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 2 Oct 1939

SHQ Formed - xx Mar 1940

No 15 Group (2 Oct 1939 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 19 Group (1944)

Closed - 6 Mar 1959

Notes

Main units: -

217 Sqn (2 Oct 1939 - 29 Oct 1941, 14 Jan - 7 Apr 1952)

No 6 Coastal Patrol Flt (15 Jan - 27 May 1940)

‘C’ Flt, No 2 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (27 Apr - 16 Aug 1940)

234 Sqn (18 Jun - 14 Aug 1940, 11 Sep 1940 - 24 Feb 1941)

‘B’ Flt, Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (1 Jul - Oct 1940)

236 Sqn (8 Aug 1940 - 21 Mar 1941)

238 Sqn (14 Aug - 10 Sep 1940)

829 Sqn FAA (7 Oct - 3 Nov 1940)

‘D’ Flt, Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (Oct - 16 Nov 1940)

‘D’ Flt, No 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (16 Nov 1940 - Jan 1941)

No 404 Flt (24 Dec 1940 - 1 Mar 1941)

‘A’ Flt, No 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (7 Jan 1941 - Apr 1941, Apr - 15 Jul 1941, Jul - Oct 1941)

801 Sqn (31 Jan - 6 Feb 1941)

247 Sqn (10 - 17 Feb 1941)

263 Sqn (24 Feb - 18 Mar 1941)

No 1404 Flt (1 Mar 1941 - 11 Aug 1943)

53 Sqn (20 Mar - 3 Jul 1941, 20 Oct - 17 Dec 1941, 16 May - 3 Jul 1942, 3 Jan - 13 Sep 1944)

816 Sqn FAA (9 - 11 May 1941)

206 Sqn (30 May - 12 Aug 1941, 12 Apr - 11 Jul 1944, 26 May - 26 Sep 1952, 27 Sep 1952 - 14 Jan 1958)

827 Sqn FAA (11 May - 4 Jun 1941)

233 Sqn (16 Aug 1941 - 2 Jan 1942)

‘B’ Flt, No 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (Oct 1941 - 19 Oct 1942)

22 Sqn (28 Oct 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

Detachments**

206 Sqn (Mar 1940 - May 1941)

83 Sqn (2 - xx Apr 1940)

48 Sqn (Jun - Jul 1940)

236 Sqn (Jul - Aug 1940, Mar - Oct 1941, 15 Apr 1942 - xxx xxxx)

247 Sqn (Aug 1940 - Feb 1941, Feb - May 1941)

254 Sqn (Aug 1940 - Jan 1941)

No 8 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (Aug 1940 - xxx xxxx)

263 Sqn (Nov 1940 - Feb 1941)

812 Sqn FAA (2 - 10 Nov 1940, 10 - 15 Dec 1940)

220 Sqn (6 Nov 1940 - 28 Apr 1941, 15 Jun 1943 - xxx xxxx)

263 Sqn (Nov 1940 - 24 Feb 1941)

53 Sqn (xxx 1940 - xxx 1941, 16 - 5 Jul 1942, xxx - 9 Sep 1943)

247 Sqn (xxx 1940 - 10 Feb 1941 )

233 Sqn (Mar - Apr 1941, Jan - Jul 1942)

816 Sqn (5 - 15 Apr 1941)

221 Sqn (xxx xxxx - 19 Apr 1941)

612 Sqn (Apr - Dec 1941)

86 Sqn (Jun 1941 - Jan 1942)

248 Sqn (Jun 1941 - Feb 1942, 9 May 1942 - xxx xxxx)

22 Sqn (23 Jul - xxx 1941)

217 Sqn (8 Nov - xxx 1941, 24 Dec 1941 - 15 Feb 1942 )

42 Sqn (Dec 1941 - 22 Jun 1942)

235 Sqn (xxx - 19 Jun 1942, Jan - Aug 1943)

302 Sqn (11 - 26 Dec 1941)

489 Sqn (9 May 1942 19 Jun 1942)

224 Sqn (19 Jun 1942 - xxx xxxx)

140 Sqn (May 1942 - Mar 1943)

61 Sqn (Jul - Aug 1942)

59 Sqn (Aug - Dec 1942, Mar - May 1943)

No 10 Operational Training Unit (xxx 1942 - 23 Jul 1943)

415 Sqn (18 - 31 Oct 1942, 20 Jun - 24 Aug 1943)

58 Sqn (31 Mar - 29 Jun 1943)

482nd Bomb Group USAAF (8 Sep -9 Nov 1943)

161 Sqn (Nov 1942 - Mar 1943)

541 Sqn (Nov 1943 - 19 Jul 1944)

Ground Controlled Approach Flt (Nov 1943 - 26 Jun 1944)

VP-111, USN (2 Mar - 13 Jul 1944)

521 Sqn (4 Dec 1944 - xxx xxxx)

280 Sqn (13 Jul - Nov 1945)

796 Sqn (28 Aug - 28 Sep 1948)

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RAF St Hubertus

No Badge authorised	Main units: -
Location Country: - Germany Lat/Long: Height above sea level: ft
Operational Control: - Opened - 15 May 1947 BAFO (15 May 1947 - xx xxx xxxx) Closed -
Notes.
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RAF St Jean

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

159 Sqn (2 Jul - 12 Aug 1942)

HQ, No 235 Wing (7 Jul - 17 Nov 1942)

No 55 Refuelling and Re-Arming Party (Aug - Oct 1942)

98th Bomb Group (21 Aug-10 Nov 1942)

343rd BombSqn
344th Bomb Sqn

451 Sqn (14 Nov 1942 - 1 Jan 1943)

127 Sqn (6 - 26 Jan 1943, 13 Mar - 1 Apr 1943)

80 Sqn (17 Aug - 7 Sep 1943)

No 123 Maintenance Unit (5 Oct - 1 Nov 1943)

HQ, No 245 Wing (20 Oct 1943 - 29 Feb 1944)

454 Sqn (21 Oct - 4 Nov 1943)

HQ, No 209 Group (5 Apr - 15 Nov 1944)

459 Sqn (15 May - 9 Aug 1944)

Escadrille 'Ardennes' (1 Nov - 1 Apr 1944)

No 1413 Flight (2 Nov 1944 - 14 Jan 1945)

Location

County: - Palestine

Lat/Long: 32:56:33N 035:06:31E

Height above sea level: ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (Landing Ground) - xx Oct 1941

SHQ opened - 29 Feb 1944

AHQ Eastern Mediterranean (29 Feb - 15 Apr 1944)

SHQ closed - 15 Apr 1944

SHQ reopened - 15 Nov 1944

SHQ closed - 15 Feb 1945

Notes.

Main units: -

335 Sqn (6 Dec 1941 - 27 Jan 1942)

261 Sqn (14 Jan - 26 Feb 1942)

Escadrille 'Nancy' (Feb - 26 Jul 1942)

147 Sqn (2 Jul - 12 Aug 1942)

Detachments**

261 Sqn (1 - 14 Jan 1942)

221 Sqn (Feb - Mar 1942, Jun 1942 - Feb 1943)

272 Sqn (Mar - Nov 1942)

458 Sqn (Ground personnel) (Mar - Sep 1942)

46 Sqn (May 1942 - Jan 1943)

47 Sqn (May 1942 - Jan 1943)

252 Sqn (Sep 1942 - Feb 1943)

38 Sqn (Feb 1943 - Nov 1944)

213 Sqn (Jul 1943 - May 1944)

HQ, No 245 Wing det (5 Jul - 20 Oct 1943)

89 Sqn (Aug - Sep 1943)

294 Sqn (Oct 1943 - Jun 1945)

459 Sqn (Dec 1943 - Apr 1944)

74 Sqn (Jan - Apr 1944)

162 Sqn (Apr - Sep 1944)

No 26 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (4 Jun 1944 - 15 Jan 1945)

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RAF St Mawgan

Main units (St Mawgan): -

491st Air Base Sqn USAAF (Jun 1943 - Aug 1945)

Traffic Control School (1 Nov 1944 - 3 Jan 1945)

No 1529 Beam Approach Training Flt (1 Dec 1944 - 27 Jan 1946)

10 Sqn (28 Aug - Sep 1945)

Armament Synthetic Development Unit (xxx 1945 - 23 Jun 1946)

No 1 Air Traffic School (3 Jan - 20 Nov 1945)

No 16 Ferry Unit (26 Apr - 15 Nov 1946)

No 3 Section, No 1552 (Beam Approach Training) Flt (5 Jun - 29 Jul 1946)

School of Maritime Reconnaissance (1 Jan 1951 - 30 Sep 1956)

Coastal Command Aircraft Preparation & Modification Flt (28 May 1951 - 15 Jul 1954)

Air-Sea Warfare Development Unit (10 May 1951 - 1 Sep 1958)

210 Sqn (15 Apr - 26 May 1952)

203 Sqn (16 Apr - 26 May 1952)

Coastal Command Modification Centre (15 Jul 1954 - Feb 1956)

744 Sqn FAA (23 Oct 1954 - 31 Oct 1956)

22 Sqn (4 Jun 1956 - Jan 1998)

228 Sqn (29 Nov 1956 - 14 Jan 1958)

220 Sqn (4 Dec 1956 - 1 Oct 1958)

No 1360 Flt (1 Aug 1957 - 1 Feb 1958)

206 Sqn (14 Jan 1958 - 1 Jul 1965)

217 Sqn (1 Feb 1958 - 13 Nov 1959)

201 Sqn (1 Oct 1958 - 1 Jul 1965)

42 Sqn (8 Oct 1958 - 1 Oct 1992)

Maritime Operational Training Unit (7 Jul 1965 - 1 Jul 1970)

7 Sqn (1 May 1970 - 5 Jan 1982)

No 236 Operational Conversion Unit/38 (Reserve) Sqn (1 Jul 1970 - 1 Apr 1982, 1 Nov 1983 - 1 Oct 1992)

No 626 Volunteer Gliding School (Nov 1990 - Oct 1992)

22 Sqn (1 Dec 1992 - 22 Sep 1997)

Sea King Training Unit (2 Apr 1993 - 1 Apr 1996)

Sea King Operational Conversion Unit (1 Apr - 1 Nov 1996)

203 (Reserve) Sqn (1 Nov 1996 - xxx 2008)

No1 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - Current)

Defence Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract (SERE) School (xx xxx 2008 - Current)

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 50:26:25N 05:00:30W

Grid Ref: SW870646

Height above sea level: 330ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (Trebelzue) - 1941

Coastal Command (xx xxx - 31 Dec 1941)

No 44 Group (31 Dec 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ Opened (St Mawgan) - 24 Feb 1943

No 44 Group (24 Feb 1943 - 1 Jul 1947)

Coastal Command (1 Jul 1947 - 16 Apr 1951)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Coastal Command, parented by RAF St Eval.

C & M, parented by RAF St Eval (16 Mar - 16 Apr 1951)

SHQ reopened - 16 Apr 1951

No 19 Group (16 Apr 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 18 Group

No 11/18 Group

No 1 Group (2005)

Notes

Approval for the requisition of the civil aerodrome at Newquay was issued in July 1940. Originally planned as a satellite airfield for St Eval called Newquay it was renamed as Trebelzue in September 1941.

A new airfield in close proximity to Treblezue was built in 1942 as a station for the Overseas Air Despatch Unit in No 44 Group and Treblezue was absorbed into this new station, named St Mawgan on 24 February 1943.

Main units (St Mawgan): -

No 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit (26 Jan 1942 - xxx xxxx)

Detachments (Trebelzue)**

Satellite of Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit (Dec 1941 - 26 Jan 1942)

264 Sqn (May 1942 - Apr 1943)

‘O’ Flt , No 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (29 May - 27 Oct 1942)

No 1602 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flt (14 Dec 1942 - 28 Feb 1943)

No 1604 (Anti-Aircraft Co-operation) Flt (14 Dec 1942 - 23 Mar 1943)

400 Sqn (Dec 1942 - Feb 1943)

Detachment (St Mawgan)**

264 Sqn (28 Dec 1942 - Apr 1943)

296 Sqn (23 May 1943 - xxx xxxx)

297 Sqn (May 1943 - xxx xxxx)

224 Sqn (Nov 1943)

482nd Bomb Group USAAF (9 - 25 Nov 1943)

282 Sqn (Sep 1944 - Jul 1945)

233 Sqn (Jul 1945 - xxx xxxx)

120 Sqn (23 Nov 1958 - xxx xxxx)

VP-11, USN (14 - 26 Sep 1960)

702 Sqn FAA (24 - 28 May 1982, 11 - 17 Dec 1985, 4 -1 14 Feb 1991)

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RAF St Thomas Mou

RAF St Thomas Mount (No 157 Staging Post)

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

113 Sqn (2 Oct - 9 Nov 1943)

42 Sqn (10 Nov - 18 Dec 1943)

Reinforcement Staging Post (6 Dec 1943 - 1 Sep 1944)

No 11 RAF Mobile Servicing Unit (Torpedo) (10 Jan - xxx 1944)

No 21 Armament Practice Camp (30 Jan - 31 Mar 1944)

146 Sqn (1 Mar - 5 Jun 1944)

No 5 Air Transit Section (10 Mar - 1 Sep 1944)

No 1302 Meteorological Flt (14 Mar 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

200 Sqn (4 May 1944 - 1 Apr 1945)

123 Sqn (1 Jun - 20 Sep 1944)

No 1 Det, No 139 Repair & Salvage Unit (xxx 1944 - 4 Jul 1946)

No 57 Staging Post (1 Sep 1944 - 15 Mar 1947)

20 Sqn (21 Sep - 23 Dec 1944, 7 Jun - 27 Aug 1945)

No 7020 Servicing Echelon (30 Sep – 23 Dec 1944, 7 Jun – 27 Aug 1945)

84 Sqn (26 Jun - 2 Sep 1945)

No 7084 Servicing Echelon (26 Jun – 2 Sep 1945)

211 Sqn (11 Jul - 2 Nov 1945)

No 7082 Servicing Echelon (2 Oct 1945- 15 Mar 1945)

82 Sqn (12 Oct 1945 - 15 Mar 1946)

HQ, No 901 Wing (14 Oct - 14 Nov 1945)

45 Sqn (12 Oct 1945 - 29 May 1946)

No 7045 Servicing Echelon (14 Oct 1945 – 29 May 1946)

Location

Country: - India

Lat/Long: 12:59:42N 80:10:30E

Height Above Sea Level: 42 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (airfield) - 1930

SHQ opened - 20 Sep 1944

No 225 Group (20 Sep 1944 - 15 Mar 1947)

SHQ disbanded - 15 Mar 1947

Notes

It is now known as Chennai International Airport

Main Units: -

27 Sqn (Apr 1930 - Sep 1939)

No 1 Coast Defence Flt, IAFVR (15 Dec 1940 - 1 Apr 1942)

No 101 (Coast Defence) Flt, IAF (1 Apr - 1 Dec 1942)

155 Sqn (9 Jul - 18 Oct 1942)

HQ, No 172 Wing (18 Oct - 27 Nov 1942, 11 Sep 1943 - 10 Feb 1944)

34 Sqn (3 May - 15 Sep 1943)

No 16 Care & Maintenance Party (7 May 1943 - Jan 1945)

135 Sqn (30 May - 6 Jul 1943, 27 Nov 1943 - 16 Jan 1944)

60 Sqn (7 - 31 Jul 1943, 1 Sep - 2 Oct 1943)

11 Sqn (15 Sep - 15 Oct 1943)

Detachments**

60 Sqn (Mar 1939 - Sep 1940, Mar - May 1942, May - Jul 1943)

20 Sqn (Apr 1940 - Jun 1941)

261 Sqn (Mar 1942 - Jan 1943)

30 Sqn (Aug 1942 - Feb 1943)

215 Sqn (Aug 1942 - Mar 1943)

No 22 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (27 Jul 1943 - Feb 1946)

89 Sqn (Oct 1943 - Mar 1944, Jun - Aug 1944)

354 Sqn (Feb - Oct 1944)

No 320 Maintenance Unit (xxx 1944 - xxx 1945)

176 Sqn (Aug 1944 - Mar 1945)

5 Sqn (Oct - Dec 1944)

203 Sqn (Oct 1944 - Feb 1945)

84 Sqn (Apr - Jun 1945)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo of the general area on Google Maps, Commanding Officers,

RAF St Vincents

No Badge authorised	Main units: - HQ No 5 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)
Location County: - Lincolnshire Lat/Long: Grid Ref: Height above sea level: ft Railway Station - Grantham LNER
Operational Control: - Opened - Closed - By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF Spitalgate.
Notes.
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RAF Stanbridge

Main units: -

Central Signals Centre (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

RAF Central Teleprinter Exchange
Landline Telegraphic Fitting Party
RAF Inter-Command W/T Station

Central Communications Centre (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

RAF Central Teleprinter Exchange
RAF Inter-Command W/T Station

No 372 Wireless Unit (xx xxx 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

European Signals Centre (1 Jan 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 7901 Reserve Flight (xx xxx 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

HQ Central Signals Area (xx xxx 1960 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 7943 Reserve Flight (xx xxx 1960 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Bedfordshire

Lat/Long: 51:54:36N 00:38:02W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

No 26 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 24 Apr 1946)

No 90 Group (25 Apr 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Signals Command

Closed -

Notes

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RAF Stanley

Badge not authorised

Main units: -

Tactical Air Traffic Control (13 Jul 1982 - xx xxx xxxx)

Tactical Communications Wing (13 Jul 1982 - xx xxx xxxx)

Tactical Supply Wing (13 Jul 1982 - xx xxx xxxx)

Hercdet (xx xxx xxxx - 20 Aug 1983)

Phandet (17 Oct 1982 - 30 Mar 1983

RAF Police Dog Section (17 May 1983 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 1310 Flight (20 Aug 1983 - 1 May 1986)

No 1312 Flight (20 Aug 1983 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 1453 Flight (20 Aug 1983 - xx May 1985)

No 1564 Flight (20 Aug 1983 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 16 Sqn RAF Regiment

No 26 Sqn RAF Regiment

No 37 Sqn RAF Regiment

No 202 Sqn , C Flight (24 Aug 1982 - 20 Aug 1983

No 23 Sqn (30 Mar 1983 - 21 Apr 1986)

No 3 (RAF Regt) Wing HQ Unit

HQ 38 Group TACP (MAOT)

Joint Helicopter Support Unit

Mobile Catering Support Unit

PCS, RE

RAF Police Detachment, P&SS(UK)

Location

Country: - Falkland Islands

Lat/Long: 51:41: 8.42S, 57:46:39.52W

Height Above Sea Level - 75.5 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 15 Jun 1982

Strike Command

Closed - 1 May 1986

Notes

Main units: -

FIGAS (Falkland Is Govt Air Service)

BDRF (Battle Damage Rep Flt)

No 1 EOD Unit

5 (Inf) Bde TACP (15 Jun 1982 - 4 Jul 1982)

No 11 Field Sqn, RE (23 Jun 1982 - 15 Aug 1982)

UK Mobile Air Movements Sqn (24 Jun 82 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 63 (Rapier) Sqn RAF Regiment (30 Jun 1982 -15 Sep 1982)

Mobile Meteorological Unit (3 Jul 1982 - 29 Apr 1986)

Hardet (4 Jul 1982 - 20 Aug 1983)

50 Field Sqn (Construction), RE (12 Jul 1982 - xx xxx xxxx)

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RAF Stanmore (Park)

No badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

No 1 RAF Film Production Unit (1 Jan 1946 - 1 Mar 1949)

Sub-site, No 3 Maintenance Unit (Oct 1946 - 1 Nov 1949)

BAFO UK Liaison Staff (Nov 1946 - Jan 1950)

No 3604 Air Defence Unit RAuxAF (8 Jan 1947 - Jun 1948)

No 83 Reserve Centre (9 Apr 1947 - 28 Jul 1952)

No 2604 Sqn, RAuxAF Regiment (12 May 1947 - 1 Jun 1949)

No 3604 Fighter Control Unit RAuxAF (Jun 1948 - 19 Oct 1949)

Film Production Unit Library (1 Mar 1949 - Dec 1950)

No 2600 Sqn, RAuxAF Regiment (1 Jun 1949 - Dec 1950)

Sub-site, No 4 Maintenance Unit (1 Nov 1949 - Mar 1957)

Fighter Command HQ Unit (part) (11 Mar 1950 - 1 Apr 1968)

No 265 Police Flt RAFVR (Dec 1950 - Feb 1952)

No 681 Signals Unit (May - Dec 1953)

No 7172 Reserve Flt (Apr 1954 - Oct 1958)

No 7194 Reserve Flt (Apr 1954 - Feb 1957)

No 7204 Reserve Flt (Apr 1954 - Apr 1964)

No 3 JSTU (1 Feb 1956 - 1 Jan 1957)

No 8 JSTU (1 Feb 1956 - xxx 1957)

No 12 JSTU (1 Feb 1956 - 10 Jul 1957

No 7142 Reserve Flt (Feb 1956 - Feb 1957)

No 7132 Reserve Flt (Jun 1956 - Apr 1964)

No 7133 Reserve Flt (Jun 1956 - Jan 1964)

No 7131 Reserve Flt (Jun 1956 - xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Middlesex

Lat/Long: 51:37:52N 00:18:36W

Operational Control: -

Opened (site)- xx xxx 1938

Balloon Command (xx xxx 1939 - 1 May 1945)

SHQ Opened - 1943

No 43 Group (1 May 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

Main units: -

906 (Balloon) Sqn (Dec 1938 - 18 Dec 1939)

907 (Balloon) Sqn (Dec 1938 - 1 Sep 1939)

No 3 Balloon Centre (Jan 1939 - 15 Mar 1945)

HQ Balloon Command (1 Sep 1939 - 15 Jun 1945)

No 4770 Airfield Construction Flt (22 Aug - 9 Sep 1944)

No 5513 Artisan Flt (22 Aug - 21 Sep 1944)

No 5523 Artisan Flt (22 Aug - 21 Sep 1944)

No 46270 Airfield Construction Flt (9 Sep - 6 Oct 1944)

MT Repair Unit (Nov - Dec 1944)

No 63 MT Repair Unit (Dec 1944 - xxx xxxx)

HQ Balloon Wing (15 Mar - 20 Aug 1945)

HQ No 43 Group (1 May 1945 - 29 Jun 1947)

Sub-site, No 232 Maintenance Unit (Apr - Oct 1946)

Detachment**

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RAF Stannington

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Accountant Officers' School (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

School of Administration (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Equipment Officers' School (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long: 55:06:36N 01:40:12W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Closed -

Notes

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RAF Stanstead Mountfitchet

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Advance Air Depot (Temporary ) (1 Oct 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

2nd Tactical Air Depot , USAAF (xx xxx 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

344th Bomb Group, USAAF (9 Feb - 30 Sep 1944)

No 263 Maintenance Unit (26 Nov 1945 - 1 Oct 1947)

Sub-site, No 263 Maintenance Unit (1 Oct 1947 - 31 Oct 1948)

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long: 51:52:53N 00:13:45E

Grid Ref - TL538228

Height Above Sea Level - 328 ft

Railway Station - Stanstead LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 7 Aug 1943

4th Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (7 Aug - 1 Oct 1943)

VIII Air Force Service Command (1 Oct 1943 - xx xx xxxx)

9th Bombardment Division (xx xxx xxxx - xx Sep 1944)

Air Service Command, USSTAF (xx Sep 1944 - 26 Nov 1945)

Maintenance Command (26 Nov 1945 - 31 Dec 1948)

C & M (31 Oct - 31 Dec 1948)

Station abandoned - 31 Dec 1948

Notes

It was originally requisitioned for use as a bomber operational station.

In early 1943 construction of the airfield was undertaken by the 825th US Engineer Battalion (Aviation).

It is now London Stanstead Airport

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RAF Stapleford Tawney

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 21 E&RFTS (1 Jan 1938 - 3 Sep 1939)

151 Sqn (29 Aug - 1 Sep 1940)

46 Sqn (1 Sep - 8 Nov 1940)

419 (SD) Flt (Sep - 9 Oct 1940)

242 Sqn (9 Apr - 22 May 1941)

3 Sqn (23 Jun - 9 Aug 1941)

277 Sqn (22 Dec 1941 - 7 Dec 1942)

No 1 Camouflage Unit (1 Jun 1942 - 1 Oct 1944)

Satellite, RAF Sawbridgeworth (1 Mar 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

656 Sqn (16 Mar - 12 Aug 1943)

No 142 Gliding School (Oct 1943 - 17 Aug 1946)

No 421 R&SU (17 Feb - 7 Apr 1944)

No 420 R&SU (19 Feb - 31 Mar 1944)

658 Sqn (6 Jul - 10 Jul 1945)

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long: 51:39:00N

Grid Ref: TL493972/177

Height above sea level: 103 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (RAF) - xx Sep 1939

No 11 Group (xx Sep 1939 - 1 Mar 1943)

No 34 Wing (1 Mar - 15 Jul 1943)

No 12 Group (15 Jul - 7 Aug 1943)

No 11 Group (C & M) ( 7 Aug 1943 - 29 May 1946)

TTC (29 May 1946 - 15 Nov 1946)

Transferred to the War Office - 15 Nov 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF Chigwell, but by 1 July 1949 had been transferred to another Government department, etc.

Notes

Approval for the acquisition of this civil airfield was issued in September 1939.

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RAF Staverton

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 31 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School (29 Sep 1938 - 3 Sep 1939)

No 6 Civil Air Navigation School (15 - 1 Nov 1939)

No 6 Air Observer & Navigation School (1 Nov 1939 - 17 Jan 1942)

No 24 Group Communication Flt (Oct 1940 - Jan 1941)

No 44 Group Communication Flt (15 Aug 1941 - 9 Aug 1946)

No 6 Flying Instructors School (1 Nov 1941 - 18 Apr 1942)

No 6 Air Observer School (17 Jan 1942 - 11 Jun 1943)

No 6 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit (11 Jun 1943 - 12 Dec 1944)

Sub-site, No 7 Maintenance Unit (4 Jun 1945 - 11 Aug 1953)

RAF Police Dog School (xx Feb 1946 - xx Feb 1951 )

RAF Police Depot (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

RAF Police School (xx Oct 1946 - xx xxx 1948)

HQ, No 1 RAF Police Wing (31 Mar 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Gloucestershire

Lat/Long: 51:53:38N 02:10:00W

Grid Ref - SO887218

Height Above Sea Level - 85 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1936

No 50 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 25 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 4 Jun 1945)

Maintenance Command (4 Jun 1945 - 1 Oct 1946)

TTC (1 Oct 1946 - 1 Apr 1947)

Reserve Command (1 Apr 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Notes

Detachments**

225 Sqn (Jul 1940 - Jul 1941)

No 7 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (Jul - 21 Sep 1940)

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (8 Mar - xxx 1943)

Links to related sites/pages

Commanding Officers, Aerial photo on Google Maps,

RAF Staxton Wold

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1939

Closed -

Currently a Radar Reporting Post

For more details - see Members' Area

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 54:11:13N 00:25:59W

Main units (continued): -

Chain Home Station.

ADGE Reporting Centre

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RAF Steamer Point

Main units: -

Air Headquarters Aden (26 Dec 1941 - 21 Apr 1942)

No 114 Maintenance Unit (1 Dec 1946 - 1 Sep 1967)

HQ, British Forces Arabian Peninsula (1 Oct 1959 - 1 Mar 1961)

HQ, Air Forces Arabian Peninsula (1 Oct 1959 - 1 Mar 1961)

HQ, Air Forces Middle East (1 Mar 1961 - 1 Sep 1967)

Middle East Command (RAF Element) (1 Mar 1961 - 1 Sep 1967)

Location

Country: - Aden

Lat/Long: 12:47:06N 44:58:48E

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 1 Aug 1945

HQ British Forces, Aden (1 Aug 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps, Control Towers website, Officers Commanding,

RAF Steeple Morden

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Detachment - No 11 Operational Training Unit (Dec 1940 - 28 Sep 1942)

'D' Flight, No 17 Operational Training Unit (13 Jan 1943 - Feb 1943)

15th Photo-Reconnaissance Sqn, USAAF (27 Oct - 21 Nov 1942)

Care & Maintenance (30 Nov 1942 - 13 Jan 1943)

355th Fighter Group, USAAF (9 Jul 1943 - 3 Jul 1945)

354th Fighter Sqn
357th Fighter Sqn
358th Fighter Sqn

Experimental Scouting Force (12 Jul - Sep 1944)

2nd Scouting Force (Sep 1944 - May 1945)

4th Fighter Group, USAAF (Jul - Nov 1945)

334th Fighter Sqn
335th Fighter Sqn
336th Fighter Sqn

Location

County: - Cambridgeshire

Lat/Long: 52:03:34N 00:06:00W

Grid Ref - TL300420

Height Above Sea Level - 168 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 91 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Oct 1942)

No 8 Group (1 Oct 1942 - 28 Jan 1943)

1st Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (28 Jan - 17 May 1943)

Fighter Command (17 May - 6 Sep1943)

VIII Fighter Command (6 Sep 1943 - xx Sep 1944)

2nd Bombardment Division (xx Sep 1945 - 1 Nov 1945)

Fighter Command (1 Nov 1945 - 1 Sep 1946)

Closed - 1 Sep 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Transport Command, parented by RAF Bassingbourn.

Notes

Originally a satellite of RAF Bassingbourn, it became the Parent Station of Bassingbourn on 1 Apr 1943.

Whilst awaiting transfer from Fighter Command to VIII Fighter Command it was parented by RAF Duxford.

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RAF Stonehenge

No Badge authorised	Main units: - 108 Sqn (12 Nov - 2 Dec 1917) 109 Sqn (12 Nov - 2 Dec 1917) 107 Sqn (18 Nov - 2 Dec 1917) No 2 Training Depot Station (2 Dec 1917 - 5 Jan 1918) No 1 School of Nav & Bomb Dropping (5 Jan 1918 - 23 Sep 1919) 97 Sqn (21 Jan - 31 Mar 1918) 140th Aero Sqn USAAS (by 17Jul 1918 - xx xxx xxxx) 377th Aero Sqn USAAS (by 17Jul 1918 - xx xxx xxxx) Artillery Coop Sqn (xx Aug 1919 - 8 Mar 1920) School of Army Co-operation (8 Mar 1920 - xx Jan 1921) 4 Sqn ‘C’ Flt (8 Mar - xx xxx 1920)
Location County: - Wiltshire Grid Ref: SU110421 Height above sea level: 330 ft Railway Station -
Operational Control: - Opened - xx xxx 1917 33rd Wing (xx xxx 1917 - 1 Apr 1918) No 7 Group (1 Apr 1918 - 16 Aug 1919) South Western Area (16 Aug - 20 Sep 1919) No 7 Group (20 Sep 1919 - 25 Aug 1921) Station relinquished - 25 Aug 1921
Notes.
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RAF Stoney Cross

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

239 Sqn (25 Jan - 7 Apr 1943)

26 Sqn (27 Feb -3 10 Mar 1943, 13 Mar - 7 Apr 1943)

175 Sqn (1 - 11 Mar 1943, 19 Mar - 8 Apr 1943)

296 Sqn (25 Jun - 15 Oct 1943)

297 Sqn (1 Sep 1943 - 14 Mar 1944)

299 Sqn (4 Nov 1943 - 15 Mar 1944)

No 3139 Servicing Echelon (19 Feb – 14 Mar 1944)

No 3143 Servicing Echelon (19 Feb - 15 Mar 1944)

367th Fighter Group, USAAF: (5 Apr - 6 Jul 1944)

387th Bomb Group, USAAF (21 Jul - 1 Sep 1944)

232 Sqn (15 Nov 1944 - 14 Feb 1945)

242 Sqn (15 Nov 1944 - 9 Dec 1945)

No 4242 Servicing Echelon (15 Nov 1944 – 9 Dec 1945)

243 Sqn (4 - 6 Jan 1945)

46 Sqn ( 9 Jan 1945 - 11 Oct 1946)

No 4046 Servicing Echelon (9 Jan 1945 – 15 Oct 1946)

No 1 Section, No 1552 (Beam Approach Training) Flt (5 Feb - 13 Apr 1946)

Location

County: - Hampshire

Lat/Long: 50:54:45N 01:39:08W

Grid Ref - SU248121

Height Above Sea Level - 373 ft

Railway Station - Southampton SR

Operational Control: -

Opened - 9 Nov 1942

No 38 Wing (9 Nov 1942 - 11 Oct 1943)

No 38 Group (11 Oct 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

USAAF ( xx xxx xxxx - 7 Sep 1944)

No 70 Group (7 Sep - 7 Nov 1944)

No 116 Wing (7 Nov 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

C & M, Transport Command

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Transport Command, parented by RAF Beaulieu, but this was changed to Maintenance Command on 5 October 1950.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as an operational airfield for use by Army Co-operation Command was issued in October 1941.

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RAF Stormy Down

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Advanced Training Sqn, No 2 Flying Training School (Oct - Nov 1939, Jan - Jun 1940)

No 7 Bombing & Gunnery School (1 Dec 1939- 9 Jun 1941)

Advanced Training Sqn, No 9 Flying Training School (Dec 1939, Mar - Apr 1940)

Detachment - No 14 Operational Training Unit (May - 7 Jun 1940)

Advanced Training Sqn, No 1 Flying Training School (Jun 1940 - Feb 1942)

No 7 Air Gunners School (9 Jun 1941 - 2 Sep 1944)

No 782 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2782 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

No 23 (French) Initial Training Wing (27 Nov 1944 - 6 Apr 1946)

No 40 Initial Training Wing (21 Aug - 27 Nov 1944)

No 68 Gliding School (Jun 1945 - Mar 1947)

No 32 (French) Personnel Reception Centre (30 Jul 1945 - 18 Feb 1946)

Location

County: - Glamorganshire

Lat/Long: 51:30:08N 03:40:00W

Grid Ref - SS842794

Height Above Sea Level - 350 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1940

No 54 Group (1944)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Technical Training Command, parented by RAF St Athan.

Notes

Main units: -

No 9 Armament Training Station (1 Jun - 1 Sep 1939)

No 7 Air Observers School (1 Sep - 1 Dec 1939)

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RAF Stornoway

Main units: -

701 Sqn FAA (6 Nov 1940 - 12 Mar 1941)

700 Sqn FAA (11 Nov 1940 - 28 May 1941)

827 Sqn FAA (14 Mar - 1 May 1941)

No 801 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

48 Sqn (24 Jul 1941 - 20 Oct 1941)

No 36 Embarkation Unit* (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 2801 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

224 Sqn (xxx - 7 Apr 1942)

500 Sqn (2 Apr 1942 - 31 Aug 1942)

No 66 Air/Sea Rescue Marine Craft Unit (30 May 1942 - 15 Nov 1945)*

58 Sqn (30 Aug - 2 Dec 1942, 28 Aug 1944 - 25 May 1945)

No 303 Ferry Training Unit (15 Dec 1942 - 5 Mar 1943)

USAAF Detachment (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

518 Sqn (9 Jul 1943 - 25 Sep 1943)

No 1693 (General Reconnaissance) Flt (10 Aug 1944 - xxx xxxx)

825 Sqn FAA (8 - 10 Aug 1944)

842 Sqn FAA (8 - 16 Aug 1944, 22 Aug - 10 Sep 1944)

502 Sqn (11 Sep 1944 - 25 May 1945)

No 214 Signal Unit (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Hebrides

Lat/Long: 58:13:06N 06:20:00W

Grid Ref - NB459932

Height Above Sea Level - 13 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1941

No 18 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1943)

No 44 Group (1 Nov 1943 - 10 Aug 1944)

No 18 Group (10 Aug 1944 - 1 Jul 1946)

Transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation - 1 Jul 1946

Detachments**

612 Sqn (Jun 1939 - Nov 1940)

500 Sqn (22 Mar - 2 Apr 1942)

160 Sqn (May 1942)

281 Sqn (Oct 1945)

No 102 (Long-Range) Air-Sea Rescue Unit (Oct 1945 - Jul 1946)*

Notes

When transferred to No 44 Group it was used as diversion airfield for Transatlantic traffic.

*These units were parented by RAF Stornoway but were located in the town.

It is now Stornoway Airport

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RAF Stradishall

Main units (continued): -

138 Sqn (16 Dec 1941 - 11 Mar 1942)

No 1 Signals Communication Unit (Dec 1941 - Jan 1942)

No 725 Ground Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

215 Sqn (5 Jan - 12 Feb 1942)

No 2725 Sqn RAF regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1943)

109 Sqn (6 Apr - 7 Aug 1942)

No 214 Conversion Flt (1 May - 9 Aug 1942)

No 1474 (Special Duties) Flt (4 - 10 Jul 1942)

101 Sqn (11 Aug - 29 Sep 1942)

No 149 Conversion Flt (2 -7 Oct 1942)

No 218 Conversion Flt (2 - 7 Oct 1942)

No 1427 (Ferry Training) Flt (2 Oct 1942 - 1 Apr 1943)

No 7 Conversion Flt (4 - 7 Oct 1942)

No 1657 Heavy Conversion Unit (7 Oct 1942 - 14 May 1944, 5 Oct - 3 Nov 1944)

HQ, Stradishall Base (26 Apr - 16 Sep 1943)

No 26 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section (16 Aug 1943 - 15 Mar 1944)

HQ, No 31 Base (16 Sep 1943 - 1 Nov 1944)

HQ, No 73 Base (1 Nov - 15 Dec 1944)

No 2754 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - Jul 1944)

186 Sqn (17 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945)

No 4158 Servicing Echelon (7 May – 28 Dec 1945)

158 Sqn (17 Aug - 28 Dec 1945)

51 Sqn (21 Aug 1945 - 20 Aug 1946)

No 4051 Servicing Echelon (21 Aug 1945 – 20 Aug 1946)

No 1556 Radio Aids Training Flt (15 Sep - Dec 1945)

No 2 Section, No 1552 Radio Aids Training Flt (15 Jan - Mar 1946)

115 Sqn (9 Sep 1946 - 15 Feb 1949)

35 Sqn (18 Sep 1946 - 10 Feb 1949)

149 Sqn (4 Nov 1946 - 28 Feb 1949)

207 Sqn (8 Nov 1946 - 28 Feb 1949)

No 203 Advanced Flying School (19 Jul - 1 Sep 1949)

No 226 Operational Conversion Unit (1 Sep 1949 - 3 Jun 1955)

125 Sqn (31 Mar 1955 - 10 May 1957)

245 Sqn (27 Jun 1955 - 30 Jun 1957)

89 Sqn (15 Dec 1955 - 30 Nov 1958)

152 Sqn (18 Jun 1956 - 16 Jan 1957, 28 Aug 1957 - 31 Jul 1958)

263 Sqn (30 Aug 1957 - 2 Jul 1958)

1 Sqn (2 Jul 1958 - 7 Nov 1961)

85 Sqn (30 Nov 1958 - 5 Jan 1959)

54 Sqn (17 Jul 1959 - 23 Nov 1961)

208 Sqn (29 Mar - 3 Jun 1960)

No 1 Air Navigation School (1 Dec 1961 - 26 Aug 1970)

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long: 52:08:00N 00:30:45E

Grid Ref: TL724512

Height above sea level: 382 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 3 Feb 1938

No 3 Group 3 Feb 1938 - 1 Nov 1944)

No 7 Group (1 Nov - 15 Dec 1944)

No 3 Group (15 Dec 1944 - 1 Aug 1945)

Transport Command (1 Aug 1945 - 20 Aug 1946)

Bomber Command (20 Aug 1946 - 6 May 1949)

C & M (28 Feb 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Fighter Command (6 May 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1970

Notes

It was HQ Stradishall Base from 26 Apr 1943, becoming No 31 Base on 16 Sep 1943. It was transferred to No 7 Group becoming a sub-station of No 73 Base from 1 Nov 1944 until 15 Dec 1944, when it reverted to No 3 Group control.

Used for storage of gliders from 10 Feb 1943 to 15 Mar 1944

Main units: -

9 Sqn (10 Mar 1938 - 15 Jul 1939)

148 Sqn (10 Mar 1938 - 6 Sep 1939, 30 Apr - 20 May 1940)

75 Sqn (13 Jul - 14 Sep1939)

236 Sqn (30 Oct - 9 Dec 1939)

254 Sqn (30 Oct - 9 Dec 1939)

New Zealand Flt (15 Jan - 12 Feb 1940)

214 Sqn (14 Feb 1940 - 5 Jan 1942, 12 Jan - 1 Oct 1942)

150 Sqn (15 Jun - 3 Jul 1940)

No 419 (Special Duties) Flt (9 Oct 1940 - 1 Mar 1941)

No 3 Group Training Flt (1 Feb - 21 May 1941)

No 1419 (Special Duties) Flt (1 Mar - 25 Aug 1941)

HQ and 'C' Flt, 109 Sqn (6 Apr 1941 - xxx xxxx)

Ground Defence Sqn (Apr - 19 Dec1941)

No 21 Blind Approach Training Flt (Oct 1941)

No 1521 Beam Approach Training Flt (Oct 1941 - 15 Mar 1943)

Detachments**

Photographic Development Unit (Jan - Jul 1940)

311 Sqn (Sep 1940 - Apr 1942)

109 Sqn (Jan - Apr 1942)

Detachment - No 23 Operational Training Unit (27 May - 3 Jun 1942)

208 Sqn (29 Mar - 3 Jun 1960)

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RAF Stranraer

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Floatplane Training Flt (23 Jun 1940 - xxx xxxx)

Flying Boat Training Sqn (24 Jun 1940 - 16 Mar 1941)

240 Sqn (30 Jul 1940 - 28 Mar 1941)

‘G’ Flt (26 Nov - 24 Dec 1940)

209 Sqn (9 Dec 1940 - 26 Mar 1941)

No 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit (16 Mar - 21 Jun 1941)

413 Sqn (1 Jul - 2 Oct 1941)

No 752 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

228 Sqn (9 Oct 1941 - 10 Mar 1942)

No 2752 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1943)

No 302 Ferry Training Unit (1 Dec 1942 - 22 Jul 1943)

Location

County: - Wigtownshire (Dumfries and Galloway)

Lat/Long: 54:54:00N 05:00:54W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Aug 1940

No 15 Group (29 Jul 1940 - 11 Mar 1942)

No 17 Group (11 Mar 1942 - 15 Feb 1944)

C & M (17 Jul 1943 - 15 Feb 1944)

Closed - 15 Feb 1944

Notes

Detachments**

No 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit (28 Feb - 10 Nov 1942)

210 Sqn (Jul 1940 - Apr 1941)

490 Sqn (Mar - Jun 1943)

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RAF Strubby

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

EAAS RLG (xx Apr 1944 - xx xxx 1949)

280 Sqn (1 May 1944 - 6 Sep 1944)

404 Sqn (1 Jul 1944 - 4 Sep 1944)

144 Sqn (4 Jul 1944 - 3 Sep 1944)

Sub Station, No 55 Base (15 Apr 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

619 Sqn (28 Sep 1944 - 30 Jun 1945)

No 5 Group AA School (12 Oct 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 55 Base Battle School (13 Oct 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

227 Sqn (5 Apr 1945 - 8 Jun 1945)

No 381 MU (9 Jul - 15 Sep 1945)

No 382 MU (9 - 25 Jul 1945)

No 383 MU (9 Jul - 9 Aug 1945)

No 384 MU (9 Jul - 15 Sep 1945)

Sub-site, No 35 MU (20 Nov 1945 - 30 Sep 1950)

RAF Flying College detachments (29 Jul 1947 - 1 Jul 1962)

No 3 All Weather Jet Refresher School, (xx xxx 1955 - xx xxx xxxx)

College of Air Warfare detachments (1 Jul 1962 - 31 Aug 1972)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 53:18:15N 00:10:45E

Grid Ref - TF 450810/122

Height Above Sea Level: 35'

Railway Station - Alford Town LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 15 Apr 1944

No 5 Group (15 Apr 1944 - 1 Nov 1945)

C & M, RAF East Kirkby (17 Jan - 15 Apr 1944)

Maintenance Command (20 Nov 1945 - 29 Jul 1949)

FTC (29 Jul 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 1972

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a satellite aerodrome for East Kirkby was issued in June 1941.

Initially held on Care & Maintenance under the control of East Kirkby, it was opened to provide accommodation to Coastal Command units as 'Lodgers'

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RAF Sturgate

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

Sub-station, RAF Hemswell (1 Mar 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

1 LFS RLG (25 Apr 1944 - xx Nov 1944)

NBTS RLG (xx May 1944 - xx Dec 1944)

No 1520 (BAT) Flt (18 Sep 1944 - 29 May 1945)

Sub-station, No 71 Base(2 Nov 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

No 1 Aircrew School (3 Nov 1944 - 6 Apr 1945)

50 Sqn (15 Jun 1945 - 25 Jan 1946)

61 Sqn (16 Jun 1945 - 25 Jan 1946)

3928th ABG USAAF (xx Jun 1953 - xx xxx 1964)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 53:22:45N 00:40:45W

Grid Ref - SK 879878/121

Height Above Sea Level: 55'

Railway Station

Gainsborough Central (Passengers) LNER
Gainsborough Lea Road (Passengers) LNER
Lea (goods) LNER
Gainsborough Lea Road (Crane traffic) LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Mar 1944

No 1 Group (1 Mar - 2 Nov 1944)

No 7 Group (2 Nov 1944 - 15 Apr 1945)

Care & Maintenance (15 Apr - 15 Jun 1945)

No 1 Group (15 Jun 1945 - 15 Apr 1946)

Care & Maintenance (31 Mar 1946 - 15 Apr 1946)

Maintenance Command (15 Apr - 2 Oct 1946)

Bomber Command (2 Oct 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Retention status) in Bomber Command, parented by RAF Hemswell.

Closed - 1964

Notes

Originally requisitioned as standard bomber operational station under the name Upton, but this was changed to Sturgate in November 1943 whilst still under construction.

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RAF Sudbury

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

486th Bomb Group, USAAF (5 Apr 1944 - Aug 1945)

832nd Bomb Sqn
833rd Bomb Sqn
834th Bomb Sqn
835th Bomb Sqn

No 16 Recruits Centre (11 Oct 1945 - 24 May 1946)

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long: 52:03:26N 00:45:45E

Grid Ref - TL893435

Height Above Sea Level - 220 ft

Railway Station - Sudbury LNER

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Nov 1943

4th Bombardment Wing Substitution Unit (1 Nov 1943 - 22 Mar 1944)

3rd Bombardment Wing, USAAF (22 Mar 1944 - 10 Oct 1945)

TTC (10 Oct 1945 - 3 Oct 1946)

Transferred to the War Office - 3 Oct 1946

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Wattisham.

Notes

Approval for the requisition of this site for use as a Bomber Operational satellite aerodrome was issued in October 1941.

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RAF Suez Road

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Main units (Suez) (continued): -

145 Sqn (16 Feb - 6 Sep 1919)

55 Sqn (1 Feb - Jul 1920)

8 Sqn (11 Dec 1920 - 23 Feb 1921)

163 Sqn (10 - 15 Jul 1942)

No 974 Sqn (17 Jul 1942 - Aug 1943)

No 39 (RN) Personnel Transit Camp(25 Jan - 3 May 1944)

No 58 Repair and Salvage Unit (1 - 6 Apr 1944)

Detachments (Suez)**

17 Sqn (Dec 1915 - Jul 1916)

67 Sqn (Sep - Dec 1916)

14 Sqn (May - Jul 1917)

Detachments (Kilo 61/LG209)**

55 Sqn (Aug 1942 - Mar 1943)

223 Sqn (Sep 1942 - Jan 1943)

Location

Country: - Egypt

Lat/Long: 29:57:00N 32:32:00 Approx

Height Above Sea Level:

Operational Control: -

Notes

Also known as LG216 and LG217.

This was often referred to as simply 'Suez' and there was also a satellite landing ground known as Suez Road No 2 (Kilo 61 and LG209)

Main units (Suez): -

No 58 Training Sqn (Feb 1917 - 14 Apr 1919)

142 Sqn (16 Feb 1919 - 1 Feb 1920)

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RAF Sullom Voe

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Main units: -

201 Sqn (9 Aug - 6 Nov 1939, 26 May 1940 - 9 Oct 1941)

210 Sqn (4 Nov 1939 - 27 May 1940, 28 Feb - 4 Oct 1942, 21 Apr 1944 - 4 Jun 1945)

240 Sqn (4 Nov 1939 - 12 Feb 1940, 27 Mar - 27 May 1940)

204 Sqn (2 Apr 1940 - 5 Apr 1941)

700 Sqn FAA (16 Jul 1940 - 28 May 1941, 28 May 1941 - xxx xxxx)

No 751 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

413 Sqn (2 Oct 1941 - 1 Mar 1942)

No 2751 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

190 Sqn (1 Mar - 31 Dec 1943)

No 6330 (Norwegian) Servicing Echelon (30 May – 14 Jun 1945)

330 Sqn (12 Jul 1943 - 30 May 1945)

Location

County: - Shetlands

Lat/Long: 60:26:58N 01:18:04W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - xx Aug 1940

No 18 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 30 Sep 1946)

Closed - 30 Sep 1946

Notes

The station was initially known as RAF Shetlands.

Detachments**

701 Sqn FAA (13 Mar - 13 Apr 1941)

422 Sqn (Aug - Sep 1942, 8 - xx Jun 1944, 19 Aug 1944 - xxx xxxx)

423 Sqn (8 Jun - xxx 1944, 19 Aug 1944 - xxx xxxx)

461 Sqn (28 Sep - 29 Oct 1944)

333 Sqn (May - Sep 1943)

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RAF Sumburgh

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

404 Sqn (1 Dec 1941 - 26 Mar 1942, 5 Aug - 24 Sep 1942)

235 Sqn (25 Mar - 31 May 1942)

No 1 Air/Sea Rescue Marine Craft Unit (28 Mar 1942 - 1 Nov 1944)

‘A’ Flt, 132 Sqn (xxx - xxxx - 11 Jun 1942, xxx - 2 Jul 1942)

‘B’ Flt , 164 Sqn (12 Jul - 10 Aug 1942)

‘B’ Flt, 132 Sqn (xxx - 12 Jul 1942)

608 Sqn (5 - 27 Aug 1942)

48 Sqn (23 Sep - 19 Nov 1942)

129 Sqn (29 Nov 1942 - 17 Jan 1943)

‘B’ Flt, 602 Sqn (xxx - 29 Nov 1942)

‘B’ Flt, 233 Sqn (xxx - 15 Apr 1943)

‘A’ Flt , 313 Sqn (Jun - 20 Jul 1943)

‘B’ Flt, 312 Sqn (7 - 10 Jul 1943)

‘B’Flt, 310 Sqn (19 Jul 1943 - xxx xxxx)

No 17 Air/Sea Rescue Marine Craft Unit (15 Jan 1944 - 15 Nov 1945)

‘B’ Flt, 118 Sqn (xxx - 8 Apr 1944)

No 1693 (General Reconnaissance) Flt (14 Jun 1944 - 31 May 1945)

‘A’ Flt, 441 Sqn (30 Dec 1944 - xxx xxxx)

125 Sqn (17 - 20 Jun 1945)

No 233 Signals Unit (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Shetlands

Lat/Long: 59:52:45N 01:17:13W

Grid Ref - HU395105

Height Above Sea Level - 3 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ Opened - 13 May 1940

No 18 Group (13 May 1940 - 1 Aug 1946)

Transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation - 1 Aug 1946

Notes

It is now Sumburgh Airport

Main Units: -

Fighter Flt, Shetlands (18 Dec 1939 - 21 Jul 1940)

254 Sqn (16 May - 23 Jul 1940, 7 Jan - 29 May 1941)

232 Sqn (17 Jul - 18 Sep 1940)

248 Sqn (20 Jul 1940 - 6 Jan 1941, 30 May - 3 Aug 1942)

‘B’ Flt, 3 Sqn (21 Jul 1940 - xxx xxxx)

‘A’ Flt, 3 Sqn (2 Jan - 29 Mar 1941)

880 Sqn FAA (15 Sep - 11 Oct 1941)

143 Sqn (29 Sep - 14 Dec 1941)

821 Sqn FAA (5 - 10 Nov 1941)

Detachments**

152 Sqn (Oct 1939 - Jul 1940)

272 Sqn (Apr 1941 - xxx xxxx)

17 Sqn (Apr - Sep 1941)

404 Sqn (9 Oct - 1 Dec 1941)

42 Sqn (23 Feb 1942 - xxx xxxx)

235 Sqn (xxx xxxx - 25 Mar 1942)

132 Sqn (22 Mar - 2 Jul 1942)

331 Sqn (22 Mar 1942 - xxx xxxx)

86 Sqn (Mar - May 1942)

217 Sqn (Mar 1942 - xxx xxxx)

164 Sqn (May - Sep 1942)

236 Sqn (xxx 1941 - 2 Jul 1942)

455 Sqn (9 Jul - 29 Oct 1942)

235 Sqn (xxx - 21 Jul 1942)

144 Sqn (2 - 4 Sep 1942)

125 Sqn (7 Oct - 17 Dec 1942)

234 Sqn (22 Jan - 24 Apr 1943)

66 Sqn (Feb - Jun 1943)

455 Sqn (May 1943)

488 Sqn (Aug 1943 - xxx xxxx)

504 Sqn (Sep - Oct 1943)

453 Sqn (20 Oct 1943 - xxx xxxx)

96 Sqn (Oct - 8 Nov 1943)

307 Sqn (Nov 1943 - Jan 1944)

602 Sqn (Jan - Mar 1944)

278 Sqn (10 Feb - 21 Apr 1944)

281 Sqn (Jun 1944 - xxx xxxx)

333 Sqn (Jun 1944 - xxx xxxx)

313 Sqn (Jul - Oct 1944)

598 Sqn (Jul - Nov 1944)

248 Sqn (Aug 1944 - xxx xxxx)

611 Sqn (Oct - Dec 1944)

329 Sqn (3 Apr - 15 May 1945)

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RAF Summit

No Badge authorised	Main units: - 223 Sqn det (Jun 1938 - 17 Sep 1939) 112 Sqn det (Jun - Mar 1939, Jul - Sep 1940) 223 Sqn (17 Sep 1939 - 22 Jan 1940, 18 May - 1 Dec 1940) 45 Sqn det (Jun -Sep 1940) 'K' Flight (xx xxx 1940 - 1 Apr 1941) Dispatch Flight (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx) No 109 Maintenance Unit (13 Feb 1942 - 22 Feb 1943)
Location Country: - Sudan Lat/Long: Height Above Sea Level -
Operational Control: - SHQ Opened - xx xxx xxxx C & M (xx xxx xxxx - 11 Aug 1943) Closed - xx xxx xxxx
Notes
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RAF Sundern

No Badge authorised	Main units: - HQ, No 2 Group (1 Nov 1948 - 15 Nov 1958) No 2 Sqn, No 11 Air Formation Regiment (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jan 1949) No 160 Air Liaison Section, BAOR (1 Nov 1948 - xx xxx xxxx) No 15053 Forward Director Post (1 Jan 1950 - xx xxx xxxx) No 110 Police Flight (25 May 1950 - xx xxx xxxx) HQ, No 3 Area (South) (15 Sep 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)
Location County: - Germany Lat/Long: Height above sea level: ft
Operational Control: - SHQ opened - 1 May 1947 BAFO (1 May 1947 - xx xxx xxxx) Closed -
Notes.
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RAF Sungei Patani

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 27 Sqn (21 Aug - 9 Oct 1941)

Country: - Malaya

Lat/Long: 5°44.17'N 100°31.53'E

Height Above Sea Level: 90 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 1 Aug 1941

SHQ formally disbanded - 23 Mar 1942

Notes

Now disused within a military camp.

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RAF Sutton Bridge

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

401 (Fleet Fighter) Flt (22 Sep - 4 Oct 1932)

404 (Fleet Fighter) Flt (23 Sep - 3 Oct 1932)

800 Sqn (10 - 19 Jul 1933, 25 Jun - 13 Jul 1934, 27 Apr - 15 May 1935)

801 Sqn (20 - 28 Jul 1933, 13 May - 1 Jun 1935)

802 Sqn (13 - 30 Aug 1934, 13 - 31 May 1935)

73 Sqn ( 4 - 23 Oct 1937)

No 3 Armament Training Station (1 Apr 1938 - 3 Sep 1939)

803 Sqn (5 - 23 Feb 1939)

Recruits Sub-Depot (10 Sep 1939 - xx xxx xxxx)

264 Sqn (30 Oct - 7 Dec 1939)

266 Sqn (30 Oct 1939 - 1 Mar 1940)

254 Sqn (9 Dec 1939 - 28 Jan 1940)

Towed Target Flt, Sutton Bridge (1 Jan - 20 Apr 1940)

No 11 Group Pool (9 Mar 1940)

No 6 Operational Training Unit (9 Mar - 1 Nov 1940)

No 56 Operational Training Unit (1 Nov 1940 - 27 Mar 1942)

No 12 Group Target Towing Flt (Oct 1941 - 13 Apr 1942)

Pilot Gunnery Instructors Training Wing (28 Mar - 6 Apr 1942)

Central Gunnery School (1 Apr 1942 - 24 Feb 1944)

Gunnery Leaders Wing (5 Sep 1942 - xxx xxxx)

RLG for No 16 Service Flying Training School(24 Feb - 29 May 1944)

No 2859 Sqn, RAF Regiment (6 Jul 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

RLG for No 7 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit (23 May - 21 Dec 1944)

RLG for No 7 Service Flying Training School (21 Dec 1944 - Apr 1946)

HQ Northern Signals Area (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No 58 Maintenance Unit (20 Jul 1954 - 1 Nov 1957)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 52:45:30N 00:12:00E

Grid Ref - TF476194

Height Above Sea Level - 9 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (part-time) - 1926

Inland Area (xx xxx 1926 - 1 Jan 1932)

No 1 Air Armament School (1 Jan 1932 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 25 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 2 Sep 1939)

Care & Maintenance (2 Sep - 30 Oct 1939)

Fighter Command - (30 Oct 1939 - 15 Jun 1940)

No 10 Group (15 Jun - Dec 1940)

No 81 Group (xx Dec 1940 - 31 Mar 1942)

No 25 Group (31 Mar 1942 - xx Feb 1944)

No 21 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 20 Sep 1946)

C & M, No 90 Group (20 Sep 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Northern Signals Area (xx xxx xxxx - 28 Feb 1950)

C & M - CSE, Watton (28 Feb - 31 Mar 1950)

Bomber Command (31 Mar 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

On 31 March 1950 it was reduced to Inactive (Retention status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Marham,

Closed - 1958

Notes

Main units: -

RAF Practice Camp, Sutton Bridge (xxx 1926 - 1 Jan 1932)¹

407 (Fleet Fighter) Flt (4 Jul 1931 - Jul 1931, 10 Sep 1932 21 Sep 1932

No 3 Armament Training Camp (1 Jan 1932 - 1 Apr 1938)

402 (Fleet Fighter) Flt (10 - 21 Sep 1932)

¹Practice Camp opening dates

1 Apr 1927 -

¹Bombing and Air Firing Range opening dates

19 Apr 1927

Detachments**

No 11 Flying Training School (30 Nov - 22 Dec 1936)

16 Sqn (Mar - xxx 1938)

64 Sqn (15 - 29 Aug 1939)

613 Sqn (Sep 1940 - Jan 1941)

255 Sqn (26 Feb 1941 - xxx xxxx)

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RAF Sutton Coldfield

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

No 5 Balloon Centre (16 Jun 1939 - 31 Jul 1942)

No 216 Maintenance Unit (1 Aug 1942 - 31 Dec 1957)

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long:

Operational Control: -

Opened (No 5 Balloon Centre) - xx xxx 1939

Balloon Command (xx xxx 1939 - 31 Jul 1942)

SHQ Opened - 31 Jul 1942

Maintenance Command (31 Ju1 1942 - xx xxx 1957)

Notes

It was originally No 5 Balloon Centre

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RAF Sutton on Hull

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Main units: -

942 (Balloon) Sqn (25 Jan 1939 - 11 Aug 1941, Sep 1942- Mar 1943)

943 (Balloon) Sqn (25 Jan 1939 - 1 Jan 1942)

944 (Balloon) Sqn (25 Jan 1939 - 25 Apr 1940, 15 Oct 1940 - 4 Apr 1942)

No 17 Balloon Centre (29 Aug 1939 - 30 Jun 1940, 27 Jul 1940 - 4 Apr 1942)

942/943 (Balloon) Sqn (1 Jan - Sep 1942 - 3 Mar 1943)

939/943 Sqn (5 Sep - 5 Dec 1944)

Safety Equipment Workers School (18 Nov 1942 - 31 May 1944)

RAF School of Fire Fighting (1 Aug 1943 -10 Aug 1946, 9 Jun 1947 - 15 Jul 1953)

RAF Central School of Aircraft Recognition (Jan1945 - 7 Jun 1948)

RAF School of Fire Fighting & Anti-Gas (10 Aug 1946 - 9 Jun 1947)

No 3505 Air Defence Unit, RAuxAF (8 Jan 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

RAF School of Fire Fighting & Rescue* (15 Jul 1953 - 7 Oct 1959)

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 53:47:13N 00:19:19W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (No 17 BC) - 1939

No 33 Group (xx xxx 1939 - 14 Oct 1942)

SHQ opened - 14 Oct 1942

No 33 Group (xx xxx 1939 - 14 Oct 1942)

Balloon Command (14 Oct 1942 - 1 Dec 1944)

SHQ closed - xx xxx xxxx

No 22 Group (1 Dec 1944 - 14 Feb 1951)

SHQ opened - 1 Feb 1945

SHQ closed - 1 Oct 1949*

No 24 Group (14 Feb 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Notes

It was originally No 17 Balloon Centre

*On 1 October 1949, the SoFF & R became the Station-Commanding unit.

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Aerial photo on Google Maps, Station history by Len Bacon, Commanding Officers,

RAF Swannington

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

85 Sqn (1 May - 21 Jul 1944, 29 Aug 1944 - 27 Jun 1945)

No 9085 Servicing Echelon (1 May 1944 - 14 Apr 1945)

157 Sqn (7 May - 21 Jul 1944, 28 Aug 1944 - 16 Aug 1945)

229 Sqn (20 Nov - 2 Dec 1944)

No 6229 Servicing Exhelon (20 Nov - 2 Dec 1944)

No 6274 Servicing Echelon (20 Nov - 4 Dec 1944)

No 6453 Servicing Echelon (4 Dec 1944 - 15 Mar 1945)

No 274 Maintenance Unit (1 Oct 1945 - 15 Sep 1947)

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 52:44:30N 01:10:15E

Grid Ref: TG140206

Height above sea level: 150 ft

Railway Station - Reepham or Cawston LNER -

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Apr 1944

No 100 Group (13 May 1944 - 30 Oct 1945)

Maintenance Command (30 Oct 1945 - 11 Nov 1947)

Station abandoned - 11 Nov 1947

By 25 October 1948 it was classed as Inactive (Surplus status) in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Hockering.

Notes

This was requisitioned in late 1942 for use as a standard bomber operational station

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RAF Swanton Morley

Main units (continued): -

No 228 Air Stores Park (15 - 27 Feb 1943, 13 Mar - 27 Apr 1943)

No 2 Group Communication Flt (5 May 1943 - 16 Jan 1944)

No 206 Maintenance Unit (26 Jun 1943 - 21 Aug 1944)

No 17 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section (16 Aug 1943 - 15 Mar 1944)

No 1508 Beam Approach Training Flt (29 Aug 1943 - 1 Mar 1944)

305 Sqn (5 Sep - 18 Nov 1943)

No 3126 Servicing Echelon (15 Oct 1943 – 13 Feb 1944)

No 3129 (Polish) Servicing Echelon (15 Oct – 18 Nov 1943)

No 1482 (Target Towing) Flt (1 Dec 1943 - 1 Apr 1944)

3 Sqn (28 Dec 1943 - 14 Feb 1944)

No 3002 Servicing Echelon (28 Dec 1943 - 14 Feb 1944)

No 100 Group Communication Flt (9 Feb 1944 - 17 Oct 1945)

No 2770 Sqn RAF Regiment (29 Feb - xx xxx 1944)

No 1508 (Gee Training) Flt (1 Mar - 24 Jun 1944)

464 Sqn (25 Mar - 9 Apr 1944)

No 6464 (RNZAF) Servicing Echelon (25 Mar – 17 Apr 1944)

No 2 Group Support Unit (1 Apr - 17 Dec 1944)

180 Sqn (12 - 26 Apr 1944)

613 Sqn (12 - 24 Apr 1944)

487 Sqn (26 - 30 Apr 1944)

320 Sqn (6 - 18 May 1944)

No 6320 (Dutch) Servicing Echelon (6 – 18 May 1944)

No 6107 Servicing Echelon (19 – 25 May 1944)

Bomber Support Development Flt (23 Dec 1944 - 21 Jul 1945)

Radio Warfare Establishment (21 Jul - 27 Sep 1945)

No 10 Air Navigation School (1 Dec 1945 - 30 Sep 1946)

Pilot-Navigation Instructors Course (31 Dec 1945 - xxx xxxx)

No 4 Radio School (5 Dec 1946 - 1 May 1951)

No 1 Air Signallers' School (1 May 1951 - 1 Apr 1957)

No 102 Gliding School (Jun 1953 - 1 Sep 1955)

No 611 Volunteer Gliding School (1 Sep 1955 - 1 Jun 1995)

No 1 Air Electronics School (1 Apr - 23 Dec 1957)

Central Servicing Development Unit/Establishment (1 Jan 1958 - xxx 1995)

No 1 Gliding Centre (8 Dec 1961 - 9 Aug 1971)

No 5 Air Experience Flt (xxx 1966 - xxx 1967)

Location

County: - Norfolk

3.5 miles N of East Dereham

Lat/Long: 52:43:38N 00:58:00E

Grid Ref: TG002187

Height above sea level: 150 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 17 Sep 1940

No 2 Group (17 Sep 1940 - 18 Dec 1944)

No 100 Group (18 Dec 1944 - 10 Nov 1945)

FTC (10 Nov 1945 - 1 Oct 1946)

No 27 Group (1 Oct 1946 - 1 Aug 1950)

No 21 Group (1 Aug 1950 - 1 Jan 1955)

No 23 Group (1 Jan 1955 - 1 Jan 1957)

No 25 Group (1 Jan 1957 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - 6 Sep 1995

Notes

From 10 Feb 1943, the station was used to store Horsa Gliders until 15 Mar 1944

Now used by the Army as Roberts Barracks

Main units: -

105 Sqn (31 Oct 1940 - 9 Dec 1941)

88 Sqn (8 Jul - 1 Aug 1941, 30 Mar - 19 Aug 1943)

152 Sqn (31 Aug - 17 Dec 1941)

No 15 Blind Approach Training Flt (22 Sep - Oct 1941)

No 1515 Beam Approach Training Flt (Oct 1941 - 1 Nov 1943)

No 3040 Servicing Echelon (14 Nov – 17 Dec 1941)

226 Sqn (9 Dec 1941 - 13 Feb 1944)

No 228 Maintenance Unit (4 Oct 1942 - 18 Feb 1943)

Detachments**

107 Sqn (May 1939 - Mar 1941)

110 Sqn (Jun 1939 - Mar 1942)

88 Sqn (19 Aug 1942 - xxx 1943, Aug 1943 - Oct 1944)

98 Sqn (27 Mar - 10 Apr 1944)

Central Gliding School (Aug 1971 - Aug 1977)

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Commanding Officers, Aerial photo on Google Maps, Control Towers website, Personnel Listings,

RAF Swanwick

No Badge authorised

Main units: -

London Area Control Centre

Location

County: - Hampshire

Lat/Long: 50:53:10N 01:17:13W

Grid Ref - SU51_09_

Height Above Sea Level - ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Closed -

Notes

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RAF-Lincolnshire.info, Officers Commanding, Aerial photo on Google Maps, Control Towers website, Personnel Listings,

RAF Swinderby

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

No 50 Conversion Flt (17 Jun - 21 Aug 1942)

No 61 Conversion Flt (22 Aug - 22 Oct 1942)

No 207 Conversion Flt (22 Aug - 22 Oct 1942)

No 97 Conversion Flt (16 Oct 1942)

No 106 Conversion Flt (16 Oct 1942)

No 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit (22 Oct 1942 - 11 Nov 1946)

No 2776 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - xxx xxxx)

HQ, No 51 Base (5 Mar 1943 - 1 Nov 1944)

HQ, No 5 Group (14 Nov 1943 - 15 Dec 1945)*

No 5 Group Communications Flt (14 Nov 1943 - 15 Dec 1945)

HQ, No 75 Base (1 Nov 1944 - 1 Oct 1945)

No 13 Aircraft Modification Centre (20 Sep 1945 - 1 Aug 1946)

No 18 Operational Training Unit (28 Oct - 1 Nov 1946)

No 17 Operational Training Unit (1 Nov 1946 - 15 Mar 1947)

No 201 Advanced Flying School (15 Mar 1947 - 1 Jun 1954)

No 91 Group Communications Flt (9 Apr - 1 May 1947)

HQ, No 91 Group (14 Apr - 1 May 1947)*

HQ, No 21 Group (1 May 1947 - 1 Mar 1955)*

No 132 (B) RAF Police Flight (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Aug 1950)

No 21 Group Communication Flt (1 May 1947 - 1 Mar 1955)

No 204 Advanced Flying School (1 Jun 1950 - 13 Feb 1952)

No 8 Flying Training School (22 Aug 1955 - 19 Mar 1964)

No 21 Group Communications Flt (1 May 1957 - 1 Mar 1955)

RLG for RAF College (15 Apr - 15 May 1965, 12 Jul - 14 Aug 1965)

RAF School of Recruit Training (xxx 1964 - 1 Apr 1993)

Flying Selection Sqn (9 Jul 1979 - 1 Jun 1987)

Elementary Flying Training Sqn (1 Jun 1987 - 1 Apr 1993)

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 53:08:45N 00:40:30W

Grid Ref: SK873616

Height above sea level: 53 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1 Aug 1940

No 1 Group (1 Aug 1940 - 19 Jul 1941)

No 5 Group (19 Jul 1941 - 3 Nov 1944)

No 7 Group (3 Nov 1944 - 18 Dec 1945)

No 91 Group (18 Dec 1945 - 1 May 1947)

No 21 Group (1 May 1947 - 1 Mar 1955)

SHQ Opened - 1 Jun 1950

Closed - 1993

Notes

It was HQ, Swinderby Base from 5 Mar 1943 until 16 Sep 1943 when it was redesignated HQ, No 51 Base. On 3 Nov 1944 it was transferred to No 7 Group and became HQ, No 75 Base, remaining as such until 1 Oct 1945.

*Morton Hall

Main units: -

No 3 Air Ammunition Park (Sep 1938 - 1 Oct 1939)

No 93 Maintenance Unit (1 Oct 1939 - 4 Oct 1948) [renamed Norton Disney]

300 Sqn (22 Aug 1940 - 18 Jul 1941)

301 Sqn (29 Aug 1940 - 18 Jul 1941)

455 Sqn (6 Jun 1941 - 8 Feb 1942)

50 Sqn (20 Jul - 26 Nov 1941, 20 Jun - 16 Oct 1942)

No 726 (Ground Defence) Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2726 Sqn RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - 2 Jun 1942)

No 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit (19 May - 15 Jun 1942)

Detachments**

455 Sqn (8 Feb - Apr 1942)

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RAF Sydenham

No Badge authorised

Main units (continued): -

No 23 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School (2 - 3 Sep 1939)

No 24 Elementary Flying Training School (3 Sep 1939 - 22 Jul 1940)

88 Sqn (23 Jun 1940 - 8 Jul 1941)

226 Sqn (27 Jun 1940 - 26 May 1941)

RAF Northern Ireland Communication Flt (xxx 1940 - Oct 1942, xxx - Sep 1945, 3 Dec 1945 - 1 Dec 1946)

Belfast University Air Sqn (8 Jan - 18 May 1941)

HQ, No 75 (Bomber) Wing (10 Feb - 15 Apr 1941)

HQ, No 75 (Bomber) Wing Defence Flt (10 Feb - 15 Apr 1941)

No 8 Ferry Pilots Pool (Mar 1941 - 1 May 1942)

HQ, No 31 Wing (15 Apr - 29 Jun 1941)

No 8 Ferry Pool ATA (1 May 1942 - 15 Sep 1945)

Queens University Air Sqn (18 May 1941 - 14 Dec 1945, 31 Mar 1947 - Jan 1992)

No 1494 (Target Towing) Flt (13 Apr 1942 - 16 Apr 1943)

No 79 Wing Calibration Flt (14 Jul - 19 Oct 1942)

No 203 Gliding School (Sep 1949 - Nov 1952)

3 Civilian Fighter Control Co-operation Unit (8 Mar 1957 - 21 Jun 1958)

No 13 Air Experience Flt (8 Sep 1958 - xxx 1973, 31 Mar 1978 - 31 Jul 1996)

Location

County: - County Antrim/Down?

Lat/Long: 54:37:05N 05:52:21W

Grid Ref -

Height Above Sea Level - 15 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

No 61 Group (6 Jul - 1 Aug 1940)

RAFNI (1 Aug 1940 - 1 Jun 1943)

Transferred to the admiralty - 1 Jun 1943

Closed -

Notes

From 10 February1941 it was known as HQ No 75 Wing and then HQ No 31 Wing from 15 April 1941.

On 1 November 1941 the name of the station was changed to RAF Station Belfast.

It is now known as George Best International Airport

Main units: -

No 24 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School (1 Jan - 3 Sep 1939)

Detachments

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (13 Feb 1942 - 30 May 1943)

No 1480 Flt (21 - 29 Sep 1942)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps, FAA Archive Website, Officers Commanding, Control Towers website,

RAF Syerston

Main units (continued): -

No 61 Conversion Flt (5 May - 22 Aug 1942)

No 408 Conversion Flt (16 May - 19 Jun 1942)

207 Sqn (23 Aug - 13 Sep 1942)

106 Sqn (30 Sep 1942 - 11 Nov 1943)

RLG for No 16 Flying Training School (xxx 1942 - xxx 1943)

No 27 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section (16 Aug 1943 - 15 Mar 1944)

No 1485 Flt (12 Nov 1943 - 26 Feb 1944)

No 1668 Heavy Conversion Unit (17 - 21 Nov 1943)

No 5 Lancaster Finishing School (21 Nov 1943 - 1 Apr 1945)

No 1690 Bomber (Defence) Training Flt (5 Feb - 13 Jul 1944, 4 Jun - 12 Oct 1945)

HQ No 56 Base (1 Oct 1944 - 25 Apr 1945)

Bomber Command Film Flight Unit (22 Apr - 17 Oct 1945)

49 Sqn (22 Apr - 28 Sep 1945)

No 1333 Conversion Flt (25 Oct 1945 - 5 Jan 1948)

504 Sqn (10 May - 8 Nov 1946)

No 1331 Conversion Flt (15 Dec 1946 - 5 Jan 1948)

No 22 Flying Training School (1 Feb 1948 - 1 May 1955)

No 132 RAF Police Flight (xx xxx xxxx - 14 Dec 1949)

No 1 Flying Training School (1 May 1955 - 18 Nov 1957)

No 2 Flying Training School (18 Nov 1957 - 16 Jan 1970)

RLG for RAF College (xxx 1972 - xxx xxxx)

Central Gliding School (31 Jan 1975 - 1 Oct 1976)

No 644 Volunteer Gliding School (31 Mar 1975 - Current)

Air Cadet Central Gliding School (1 Oct 1976 - Current)

No 643 Volunteer Gliding School (10 Oct 1992 - Current)

645 Volunteer Gliding School ( xxx xxxx - 1 Apr 1999)

Location

County: - Nottinghamshire

Lat/Long: 53:01:15N 00:54:45W

Grid Ref: SK730480

Height above sea level: 211ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 17 Nov 1940

No 1 Group (25 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1941)

No 5 Group (20 Jul 1941 - 20 Oct 1945)

No 4 Group (20 Oct 1945 - 7 Jan 1948)

No 23 Group (7 Jan 1948 - xx xxx 1971)

Main units: -

304 Sqn (2 Dec 1940 - 19 Jul 1941)

305 Sqn (2 Dec 1940 - 20 Jul 1941)

408 Sqn (20 Jul - 9 Dec 1941)

No 727 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2727 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1943)

61 Sqn (5 May 1942 - 16 Nov 1943)

Detachments**

305 Sqn (Nov - 3 Dec 1940)

Notes

It was a sub-station of No 51 Base from 21 Nov 1943 to 1 Oct 1944.

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Officers Commanding, Atlantikwall website, Aerial photo on Google Maps, Control Towers website,

RAF Sylt

Main units (continued): -

33 Sqn (17 Sep - 6 Oct 1945, 31 Mar - 8 May 1946)

3 Sqn (6 - 23 Oct 1945, 22 Oct - 25 Nov 1946)

No 6003 Servicing Echelon (6 – 23 Oct 1945)

69 Sqn (9 - 27 Oct 1945)

80 Sqn (28 Oct - 18 Nov 1945, 4 May - 12 Jun 1946,14 Feb - 22 Mar 1947)

21 Sqn (9 - 30 Nov 1945, 30 Mar - 27 Apr 1946, 6 Nov - 12 Dec 1946)

No 6021 Servicing Echelon (9 – 30 Nov 1945, 6 Nov – 12 Dec 1946)

411 Sqn (16 Nov - 4 Dec 1945)

412 Sqn (7 - 21 Dec 1945)

26 Sqn (8 - 24 Dec 1945, 6 Jan - 14 Feb 1947)

56 Sqn (31 Dec 1945 - 22 Jan 1946)

305 Sqn (2 - 19 Jan 1946, 18 Jun - 11 Jul 1946)

107 Sqn (20 Jan - 3 Feb 1946, 22 Jul - 22 Aug 1946, 17 - 24 Feb 1947, 26 Feb - 22 Mar 1947, 26 Sep - 18 Oct 1947)

308 Sqn (22 Jan - 9 Feb 1946)

4 Sqn (4 - 17 Feb 1946, 6 Sep - 9 Oct 1946, 5 - 22 Aug 1947)

2 Sqn (10 Feb - 5 Mar 1946, 19 Aug - 16 Sep 1946)

41 Sqn (28 Feb - 29 Mar 1946)

350 Sqn (7 - 29 Mar 1946)

349 Sqn (8 May - 14 Jun 1946)

16 Sqn (21 Jun - 14 Jul 1946)

317 Sqn (Jul - 16 Aug 1946)

Armament Practice Station, Sylt (17 Jul 1946 - 29 Feb 1948, Feb 1949 - 16 Oct 1961)

Training Sqn, RAF Sylt (xx xxx xxxx - 24 Nov 1947)

No 103 Police Flight Det (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

2nd Tactical Air Force Air Sea Rescue Flt (Feb 1955 - Sep 1961)

Location

Country: - Germany

Lat/Long: 54:54:48N 08:20:26E

Height Above Sea Level: 51 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 15 Jul 1945

BAFO (15 Jul 1945 - 29 Feb 1948)

SHQ closed - 29 Feb 1948

SHQ re-opened - 1 Jun 1949

Closed - 16 Oct 1961

Notes

Originally known as B170 Westerland, it was renamed RAF Sylt on 27 Sep 1945.

It was handed over to the Luftwaffe in 1961.

Main units: -

No 2765 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - xxx xxxx)

No 2781 Sqn RAF Regiment (xxx xxxx - xxx xxxx)

No 25 Armament Practice Camp (15 Jul 1945 - 17 Jul 1946)

302 Sqn (27 Aug - 14 Sep 1945, 27 - 31 Aug 1946)

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