This list does not include Initial Training Wings, which will be
listed separately
| Wing |
Formation/Disbandment |
Function |
Notes |
|
215 |
?/8/56 - 15/1/57 |
|
Technical Training Command
|
| 231 |
(a) 27/12/41 - 31/3/46
(b) 2/9/46 - 31/7/47 |
(Bomber)
(Transport)
|
|
| 232 |
10/12/41 -12/12/46 |
(Light Bomber)
|
|
| 233 |
(a) 10/12/41 - 5/1/43
(b) 1/3/43 - 1/8/43
(c) 5/10/43 - 25/1/44 |
(Fighter)
(Administration)
|
|
| 234 |
5/12/41 - 6/12/42 |
(Mobile Defensive Fighter)
|
|
| 235 |
20/1/42 - 29/2/44
|
(GR)/ (Naval Co-op)
|
|
| 236 |
1/2/42 - 20/12/46
|
(Mobile Medium Bomber)/ (Heavy Bomber)
|
|
| 237 |
(a) 1/4/42 - 28/2/43
(b) 9/8/43 - 29/2/44
|
(Fighter)
(General Reconnaissance)
|
|
| 238 |
(a) 30/1/42 - 20/9/43
(b) 11/9/45 - 15/11/46
|
(Medium Bomber)
(Airborne Forces)
|
|
| 239 |
1/3/42 - 8/1/47
|
(Offensive Fighter)
|
|
| 240 |
7/3/42 - 15/9/46 |
(Mobile Light Bomber)/ (Reconnaissance) |
|
| 241 |
12/4/42 - 1/8/43 |
(Offensive Fighter)/ (Administrative) |
|
| 242 |
(a) 10/2/42 - 1/7/43
(b) 30/6/45 - ? |
(Bomber)
(Maintenance) |
(b) to have been part of 'Tiger Force' |
| 243 |
(a) 1/3/42 - 28/2/43
(b) 18/9/43 - 20/10/43
(c) 26/10/43 - 1/12/44 |
(Offensive Fighter)
(Fighter)
(Standard Offensive Fighter) |
|
| 244 |
4/6/42 - 27/1/47 |
(Offensive Fighter) |
|
| 245 |
(a) 23/7/42 - 17/12/42
(b) 20/2/43 - 29/2/44 |
(Heavy Bomber)
(General Reconnaissance) |
|
| 246 |
1/6/42 - 10/6/45 |
(Defensive Fighter) |
|
| 247 |
7/3/42 - 29/2/44 |
(Twin-engined Day Fighter)/ (Naval Co-op) |
|
| 248 |
7/3/42 - 6/10/44 |
(GR/Torpedo Bomber) |
|
| 249 |
(a) 11/4/42 -23/7/42
(b) 20/1/43 - 15/9/43
(c) 7/11/43 - 15/8/46 |
(Heavy Air Transport)/ (Heavy Bomber)
(Transport)
(Transport) |
|
| 250 |
21/9/439 - 6/12/42 |
(Bomber)/ (Signals) |
|
| 251 |
(a) 21/9/39 - ?/3/40
(b) 29/4/42 - 1/10/42
(c) 13/3/44 - 7/11/44 |
(Bomber)
(Defensive Fighter)
(Fighter) |
|
| 252 |
(a) 21/9/39 -6/12/42
(b) 15/1/44 - 19/2/44 |
(Fighter)
(Fighter) |
|
| 253 |
(a) 21/9/39 - 10/6/40
(b) 1/5/41 - 17/11/41
(c) 29/7/44 - 31/8/45 |
(Bomber)
(Army Co-operation)
(Light Bomber) |
|
| 254 |
(a) 2/9/39 - 24/5/41
(b) 8/7/44 - 25/7/45 |
(Bomber)
(Light Bomber) |
|
| 256 |
(a) 23/4/40 - ?/1/41
(b) ?/4/41 - 6/12/42 |
(Air Information Signals)
|
|
| 257 |
20/12/40 - 23/10/41 |
(Heavy Bomber) |
|
| 258 |
1/1/41 - 1/3/42 |
(Semi-mobile Advanced Fighter)/ (Fighter) |
|
| 259 |
(a) ?/4/41 - ?
(b) 14/7/41 - 30/11/44
|
(Medium Bomber)
|
|
| 260 |
13/7/41 -15/1/45 |
(Balloon) |
|
| 261 |
5/10/41 - 13/11/41 |
(Medium Bomber) |
Became No 3 Wing SAAF |
| 262 |
11/10/41 - 1/3/42 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 263 |
(a) 6/10/41 - 1/5/43
(b) 15/1/44 - 15/3/44
|
(Fighter)
(Light Bomber)
|
|
| 264 |
24/10/41 - 31/10/41 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 265 |
24/10/41 - 3/12/41 |
(Medium Bomber) |
|
| 266 |
?/?/41 - 28/3/42 (Nom) |
(Fighter) |
Presumed lost in Far East |
| 267 |
(a) 18/12/41 - ?/?/41
(b) 22/3/42 - 28/3/42
|
(Fighter)
(Fighter)
|
|
| 268 |
1/12/41 - 3/12/41 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 269 |
31/10/41 - 5/12/41 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 270 |
?/11/41 - 20/1/42 |
(Light Bomber) |
|
| 272 |
3/12/41 - 10/12/41 |
(Light Bomber) |
|
| 273 |
(a) 3/12/41 - 10/12/41
(b) 10/7/45 - ?
|
(Fighter)
|
|
| 274 |
4/2/42 - 23/3/43 |
(Balloon |
|
| 275 |
23/4/42 - 1/12/43 |
(Balloon) |
|
| 276 |
No 276 (Signals) Wing was formed in 1 Aug 1942 at Heliopolis to control
Special Signals Units in Middle East Command. It moved to
Aleppo on 15 Nov 1942 and ten days later was transferred to North-West
African Air Forces. On 1 Dec 1943 it reverted to the control of
RAF Middle East but on 24 Dec it came under No 214 Group of NWAAF, with
a forward HQ at Conversano and a rear HQ still at Heliopolis. Both
276 Wing and No 214 Group were transferred to Mediterranean Alliied
Coastal Air Forces on 1 Feb 1945 and the Wing disbanded on 31 Aug 1945.
|
| 280 |
?/?/? - 9/6/43 |
(Signals |
|
| 281 |
16/6/44 - 30/9/45 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 282 |
1/2/44 - 1/6/46 |
(Transport) |
|
| 283 |
(a) 5/6/42 - 1/1/43
(b) 10/5/43 - 31/5/44
(c) 16/6/44 - 1/5/45
(d) 1/2/46 - 14/8/47
|
(Air Transport)
(Fighter)
(Airborne Forces)
|
|
| 284 |
15/8/43 - 1/6/46 |
(Transport) |
|
| 285 |
(a) 1/8/42 - 30/9/45
(b) 1/2/47 - 10/6/47
|
(Reconnaissance)
(Mobile Fighter)
|
|
| 286 |
14/8/43 - 26/5/45 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 287 |
11/9/43 - 14/7/45 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 292 |
26/1/42 - 16/7/42 |
(Fighter) |
|
| 293 |
(a) 6/1/42 - 16/7/42
(b) 1/10/42 - 30/9/44
|
(Fighter)
(Defensive Fighter)
|
|
| 294 |
6/1/42 - 19/1/42 |
(Army Co-operation) |
|
| 295 |
1/3/42 -1/8/45 |
(General Reconnaissance) |
|
| 296 |
17/2/42 - 30/4/43 |
(Signals |
|
| 297 |
7/10/42 - 15/2/43 |
(General Reconnaissance) |
|
| 298 |
19/9/42 -1/6/45 |
|
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