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Air Defences of Great Britain - July 1927

Wessex Bombing Area (HQ - Andover)

 

Unit	Location
Station HQ	Andover, Oxfordshire
No 12 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Andover
RAF Staff College (a)	Andover
Station HQ	Worthy Down
No 58 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Worthy Down
No 7 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Worthy Down
No 11 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Netheravon
Station HQ	Spittlegate, Grantham, Lincolnshire
No 100 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Spittlegate
No 39 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Spittlegate
No 99 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Bircham Newton
No 9 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Manston
No 207 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Eastchurch

(a) For discipline and administration only

Fighting Area (HQ - Uxbridge)

 

Unit	Location
Station HQ	Kenley, Surrey
No 32 Sqn	RAF Kenley
No 23 Sqn	RAF Kenley
No 56 Sqn	RAF Biggin Hill
Night Flying Flt	RAF Biggin Hill
Station HQ	RAF Northolt
No 24 Sqn (b)	RAF Northolt
No 41 Sqn	RAF Northolt
Superintendent, RAF Reserve	RAF Northolt
No 25 Sqn	RAF Hawkinge
Station HQ	RAF Duxford
No 19 Sqn	RAF Duxford
No 29 Sqn	RAF Duxford
No 111 Sqn	RAF Duxford
Station Flt	RAF Duxford
No 3 Sqn	RAF Upavon
No 17 Sqn	RAF Upavon
No 1 Sqn	RAF Tangmere
No 43 Sqn	RAF Tangmere

(b) Directly under Air Ministry for operations

Air Defence Group (HQ - 145 Sloane Street, Sloane Square, London SW1)

 

Unit	Location
Special Reserve Units
No 502 (Ulster) (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Aldergrove
No 503 (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Waddington
Auxiliary Air Force Units
No 600 (City of London) (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Hendon
No 601 (County of London) (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Hendon
No 602 (City of Glasgow) (Bombing) Sqn	Renfrew
No 603 (City of Edinburgh) (Bombing) Sqn	RAF Turnhouse
No 605 (County of Warwick) (Bombing) Sqn	Castle Bromwich

Source - July 1927 Air Force List

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