Main units (continued): -

Detachment - 104th Aero Sqn, USAAS (24 Dec 1917 - 9 Jul 1918)

7th Training Sqn, AFC (14 Jan - 23 Feb 1918)

No 36 Training Depot Station (15 Jul 1918 -  - 15 May 1919)

No 37 Training Depot Station (15 Jul 1918 -  - 15 May 1919)

199th Aero Sqn, USAAS (Jul 1918 - xxx xxxx)

73 Sqn (10 Feb - 2 Jul 1919)

65 Sqn (12 Feb - 25 Oct 1919)

54 Sqn (17 Feb - 25 Oct 1919)

66 Sqn (10 - 29 Mar 1919)

No 1 (Yatesbury ) Wing (15 May 1919 - xxx xxxx)

No 2 Civil Air Navigation School (26 Sep 1938 - 1 Nov 1939)

No 2 Electrical and Wireless School (1 Dec 1938 - 26 Aug 1940)

No 10 Elementary Flying Training School (3 Sep 1939 - 7 Sep 1940)

No 2 Air Observer & Navigation School (1 Nov 1939 - 14 Dec 1940)

Special Signals School (18 Jan 1940 - 1 Mar 1941)

Bristol Wireless Flight (14 May 1940 - Jul 1945)

HQ, No 5 Wing (4 - 16 Jun 1940)

No 6 Air Stores Park (18 - 20 Jun 1940)

No 2 Signals School (26 Aug 1940 - 1 Jan 1943)

No 50 Group Pool (xxx - xxx 1940)

No 2 Radio School (1 Mar 1941 - 21 May 1942, 1 Jan 1943 - 31 Oct 1965)

No 807 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2807 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1943)

No 2 Radio Direction Finding School (21 May 1942 - 1 Jan 1943)

No 9 Radio School (1 Jan 1943 - 30 Jan 1946)

Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) Wing (10 Jul - xxx 1944)

No 2 Elementary Flying Training School (9 Jul 1945 - 30 Sep 1947)

HQ, No 27 Group (20 Jul 1953 - 1 May 1954)

Casualty Evacuation Flt (14 Aug - 23 Dec 1956)

HQ, No 215 Wing (Aug 1956 - 15 Jan 1957)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:  51:25:54N  01:54:00W

Grid Ref:  SU060710

Height above sea level: 570 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 1917

21th (Training) Wing (1916-18)

No 27 Group (1944)

Closed - 1969

Notes

Used as a sub-site for No 10 MU in 1940

Main units: -

No 55 Reserve Sqn (22 Nov 1916 - 1 Jun 1917)

No 59 (Reserve) Sqn (30 Apr - 1 Jun 1917)

No 62 Reserve Sqn (10 May - 1 Jun 1917)

No 66 Reserve Sqn (10 May 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

HQ, 28th Wing RFC (1 Jun 1917 - 15 May 1919)

No 13 Training Sqn (1 Jun 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

No 55 Training Sqn (1 Jun 1917 - 23 Jul 1917)

No 59 Training Sqn (1 Jun - 30 Oct 1917)

No 66 Training  Sqn (1 Jun 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

28 Sqn (23 Jul - 8 Oct 1917, 10 - 29 Mar 1919)

99 Sqn (15 - 30 Aug 1917)

No 17 Training Sqn (8 Oct 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

No 16 Training Sqn (30 Oct 1917 - 15 Jul 1918)

No 32 Training (AFC) Sqn (xxx 1917 - 14 Jan 1918)

Links to related sites/pages

RAF Yatesbury Association website, Officers Commanding, Atlantikwall website, Aerial photo on Google Maps,

Main units: -

609 Sqn (10 Feb 1936 - 27 Aug 1939)

No 51 Group Communication Flt (xxx 1940 - 14 Jul 1945)

No 20 Elementary Flying Training School (17 Mar 1941 - 9 Jan 1942)

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

No 23 Gliding School (May 1943 - Mar 1948)

609 Sqn (2 Sep 1946 - 6 Oct 1950)

Leeds University Air Sqn (22 Apr 1947 - 1 May 1948, 18 Mar 1954 - 2 Nov 1959)

No 1964 Reserve AOP Flt, 664 Sqn (1 Sep 1949 - 2 Feb 1953, 1 Jun 1954 - 10 Mar 1957)

No 9 Air Experience Flt (8 Sep 1958 - 2 Nov 1959)

Detachments

No 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (Aug 1941 - 22 Jul 1942)

Location

County: - West Yorkshire

Lat/Long:   53:51:57N  01:39:38W

Grid Ref - 

Height Above Sea Level -  ft

Operational Control: -

Opened (as RAF Station) - 23 Aug 1939

No 13 Group (23 Aug 1939 - 1 Sep 1940)

No 12 Group (1 Sep 1940 - 17 Mar 1941)

No 51 Group (17 Mar 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Notes

It is now Leeds Bradford International Airport.

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps,  Personnel Listings,

Main units: -

261 Sqn (27 Apr - 15 Aug 1944)

30 Sqn (25 May - 13 Sep 1944)

79 Sqn (26 May - 17 Sep 1944)

146 Sqn (5 Jun - 13 Aug 1944)

No 1670 (Thunderbolt) Conversion Unit (20 Jun  1944 - 24 Jan 1945)

258 Sqn (14 Aug - 8 Oct 1944)

134 Sqn (15 Aug - 6 Oct 1944)

No 2 Det, No 139 Repair & Salvage Unit (xxx 1944 - Jan 1946)

No 58 Staging Post (1 Sep 1944 - 20 Aug 1946)

5 Sqn (16 Sep - 24 Oct 1944, 3 - 10 Nov 1946)

No 7005 Servicing Echelon (30 Sep – 24 Oct 1944)

123 Sqn (20 Sep - 24 Oct 1944)

No 7123 Servicing Echelon (30 Sep – 24 Oct 1944)

No 7134 Servicing Echelon (30 Sep – 4 Oct 1944)

47 Sqn (7 Oct - 6 Nov 1944)

No 7047 Servicing Echelon (8 Oct – 6 Nov 1944)

110 Sqn (26 Oct 1944 - 11 Mar 1945)

No 7110 Servicing Echelon (26 Oct 1944 – 1 Mar 1945)

84 Sqn (31 Oct 1944 - 23 Apr 1945)

No 7084 Servicing Echelon (31 Oct 1944 – 23 Apr 1945)

211 Sqn (13 May - 11 Jul 1945)

No 224 Group Communication Flt (Jul - 9 Sep 1945)

No 8 Casualty Air Evacuation Unit (Aug - 28 Oct 1945)

No 11 Casualty Air Evacuation Unit (Sep  - 28 Oct 1945)

No 2 (Indian) Group Communication Flt (1 May 1946 - 1 Jun 1947)

152 Sqn (13 May - 18 Jun 1946)

Location

Country - Karnataka, India

Lat/Long:  13:08:09N  77:36:21E

Height above sea level:  3.045 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - 5 Apr 1944

No 225 Group (5 Apr 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes

It is now an active Indian Air Force station in Southern Air Command (2008).

Main Units: -

Calibration Unit (Jul 1942 - 13 Sep 1943)

42 Sqn (7 Dec 1942 - 12 Mar1943)

HQ, No 171 Wing (2 May - 2 Jun 1943)

No 23 Care & Maintenance Party (7 May 1943 - May 1944)

60 Sqn (14 May - 7 Jul 1943, 31 Jul - 1 Sep 1943)

No 3 Meteorological Flt (1 - 31 Jul 1943)

135 Sqn (6 Jul - 22 Nov 1943)

No 2 Air Transit Section (16 Jul 1943 - 1 Sep 1944)

No 1302 Meteorological Flt (31 Jul 1943 - 14 Mar 1944)

11 Sqn (15 Aug - 15 Sep 1943)

113 Sqn (31 Aug - 2 Oct 1943)

No 1580 Calibration Flt (13 Sep 1943 - 4 Aug 1944)

Reinforcement Staging Post (19 Dec 1943 - 1 Sep 1944)

No 225 Group Communication Flt (10 Jan 1944 - May 1946)

No 1672 (Mosquito) Conversion Unit (1 Feb - 3 Jun 1944, 29 Oct 1944 - 10 Aug 1945)

45 Sqn (4 Feb - 1 May 1944)

No 21 Armament Practice Camp (31 Mar - 23 Sep 1944)

Detachments**

84 Sqn (Apr - Aug 1943)

42 Sqn (May - Oct 1943)

No 171 Wing (27 Jun - 5 Jul 1943)

684 Sqn (May 1944 - Ma 1945)

60 Sqn (Jun - Jul 1945)

5 Sqn (Jan - Jul 1947)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps,

Main units: -

No 4 Group Communication Flt (xxx 1940 - xxx 1942)

No 773 Defence Sqn (xx Jul 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 2773 Sqn, RAF Regiment (1 Feb 1942 - xxx 1942)

Detachment - 613 Sqn (Sep 1940 - Jul 41)

No 33 Wing Communication Flt (15 Aug 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

4 Sqn (27 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943, 12 Mar 1943 - 20 Mar 1943)

Detachment - 169 Sqn (Jun 1942 - Oct 1942)

169 Sqn (15 Nov 1942 - 20 Dec 1942)

231 Sqn (21 Mar 1943 - 7 Jul 1943)

430 Sqn (9 Feb 1944 - 25 Feb 1944)

613 Sqn (xxx 1940 - xxx 1941, 28 May 1943 - 20 Jun 1943)

614 Sqn (Mar 1941 - Jul 1941)

809 Sqn FAA (28 Dec 1942 - 22 Mar 1943)

657 Sqn (26 Jun 1943 - 15 Aug 1943)

658 Sqn (30 Aug 1943 - 31 Dec 1943)

659 Sqn (17 Aug 1943 - 23 Apr 1944)

No 4 Aircraft Delivery Flight (8 Mar 1944, - 7 xxx 1945, 5 Jun - 31 Oct 1945)

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long:   53:59:15N  01:05:45W

Grid Ref -  SE590550

Height Above Sea Level - 30 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 1 May 1941)

Army Co-operation Command (1 May - 15 Aug 1941)

No 33 Wing (15 Aug 1941 - 1 Jun 1943)

No 12 Group (1 Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

(C & M) ( 7 Aug 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed on transfer to the War Office - 21 Nov 1945

Notes

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

The name was changed to Clifton on ?

It is now a shopping centre.

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps,  Control Towers website,

Main units: -

200 Sqn (13 Mar 1943 - 4 May 1944)

HQ, No 295 Wing (21 Sep 1944 - 1 Aug 1945)

No 54 Staging Post (22 Oct 1945 - 18 Jul 1946)

Detachments: -

128 Sqn (Oct 1941 - Mar 1943)

541 Sqn (Feb - Oct 1946)

82 Sqn (Oct 1946 - Jun 1947)

Location

Country: - Gambia

Lat/Long:  13:20:17N   16:39:08W

Height Above Sea Level:  95 ft

Operational Control: -

SHQ opened - xx xxx xxxx

AHQ West Africa (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

SHQ closed - 22 Oct 1945

Airfield transferred to Gambian Government - 7 Oct 1946.

Notes

On 1 August 1945 it assumed parenting duties for Bathurst and Port Etienne

Station renamed No 54 Staging Post on 22 October 1945

It is now known as Banjul International Airport

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps,

Main units: -

132 Sqn (1 Mar - 5 Apr 1943)

174 Sqn (12 Mar - 5 Apr 1943)

182 Sqn (12 - 13 Mar 1943)

184 Sqn (12 Mar - 4 May 1943)

No 610 (AAF) Servicing Echelon (12 Mar – 1 Apr 1943)

No 3209 Servicing Commando (8 May - 6 Jul 1943)

No 3210 Servicing Commando (8 May - 3 Aug 1943)

No 3207 Servicing Commando (9 May - 7 Jul 1943)

No 3205 Servicing Commando (12 Jun - 19 Jul 1943)

263 Sqn (19 Jun 1943 - 12 Jul 1943)

488 Sqn (11 May - 28 Jul 1944)

HQ, No 147 Wing (12 May - 29 Jun 1944)

410 Sqn (18 Jun -28 Jul 1944)

HQ, No 149 Wing (29 Jun - 28 Jul 1944)

604 Sqn (25 - 28 Jul 1944)

949 (Balloon) Sqn (11 Aug - 15 Dec 1944)

Glider Pick-Up Training Flt (8 Jan - 19 Mar 1945)

760 Sqn FAA (10 Apr -12 Sep 1945)

704 Sqn FAA (11 Apr - 4 Sep 1945)

771 Sqn FAA (25 Jul - 12 Sep 1945)

759 Sqn FAA (Yeovilton 19 Sep 1945 - 7 Jan 1946)

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long:   51:05:30N  02:18:45W

Grid Ref -  ST777325

Height Above Sea Level - 550 ft

Operational Control: -

Opened - 15 May 1942

No 10 Group (15 May 1942 - 1 Oct 1944)

C & M (23 Aug 1943 - 1 Oct 1944)

No 11 Balloon Centre (1 Oct 1944 - 14 Apr 1945)

Transferred on loan to the Admiralty - 14 Apr 1945

Closed - 1946

Notes

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

Main Units: -

286 Sqn (26 May - 21 Aug 1942, 28 Jul - 28 Sep 1944)

No 3031 Servicing Echelon (23 Aug - 23 Dec 1942)

No 3042 Servicing Echelon (23 Aug – 23 Dec 1942)

66 Sqn (24 Aug - 26 Sep 1942, 29 Sep - 8 Oct 1942, 9 Oct - 1 Nov 1942, 14 Nov - 23 Dec 1942)

118 Sqn (24 Aug - 23 Dec 1942)

421 Sqn (21 - 24 Oct 1942, )

Detachments

421 Sqn (1 - 14 Nov 1942)

No 3 Glider Training Unit (21 Oct - 9 Dec 1944)

No 107 (Transport) Operational Training Unit (20 Jan 1945)

Links to related sites/pages

Aerial photo on Google Maps,  FAA Archive Website, Atlantikwall website,  Control Towers website,