Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Maintenance Command - July 1942

[Command HQ | No 53 Wing | No 40 Group | No 41 Group | No 42 Group | No 43 Group]

Command HQ - Andover, Hampshire

Units administered directly by Maintenance Command HQ

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 53 Wing	see below
No 223 Maintenance Unit	RAF High Ercall (a)
No 1 Packed Aircraft Transit Pool	Pleasureland, Southport
No 3 Packed Aircraft Transit Pool	Newhouse by Motherwell, Lanarkshire
No 54 Wing	RAF Andover

(a) Station under the operational control of No 9 Group, Fighter Command

No 53 Wing

HQ - 81 Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 47 Maintenance Unit	RAF Sealand (a)
No 52 Maintenance Unit	RAF Cardiff (b)
No 76 Maintenance Unit	Wroughton, nr Swindon, Wiltshire
No 82 Maintenance Unit	RAF Lichfield (c)
No 215 Maintenance Unit	Tinwald Downs, Dumfries

(a) Station the operational control of No 43 Group

(b) Station the operational control of No 70 Group, Army Co-operation Command

(c) Station the operational control of No 91 Group, Bomber Command

No 40 (Maintenance) Group

HQ - RAF Andover. Hampshire

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 3 Maintenance Unit	Milton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
No 7 Maintenance Unit	Quedgeley, Gloucestershire
No 14 Maintenance Unit	RAF Carlisle
No 16 Maintenance Unit	Sandon Road, Stafford
No 17 Maintenance Unit	Pitfour Castle, Perth
No 25 Maintenance Unit	Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Worcestershire
No 35 Maintenance Unit	Heywood, Lancashire
No 55 Maintenance Unit	Holywood, Northern Ireland
No 61 Maintenance Unit	Handforth, Wilmslow, Manchester
No 62 Maintenance Unit	MacAllister's Yard, Sand Point, Dumbarton.
No 66 Maintenance Unit	Budby Road, Cuckney, nr Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
No 69 Maintenance Unit	Sandysyke, Longtown, Cumberland
No 70 Maintenance Unit	Woodcote, Goring Heath, Reading, Berkshire
No 72 Maintenance Unit	Roade, nr Northampton
No 74 Maintenance Unit	Ivy House, Bough Beech, West Kent
No 79 Maintenance Unit	Lentran House, Inverness
No 87 Maintenance Unit	Ben Johnson's Works, Boroughbridge Road, York
No 99 Maintenance Unit	Curzon Lane, Alvaston, Derby
No 201 Maintenance Unit	Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire
No 203 Maintenance Unit	Manners Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire
No 204 Maintenance Unit	Messer G Selwoods Factory, Harborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire
No 217 Maintenance Unit	Ballymena, Northern Ireland
'A' Maintenance Unit	Palace of Industry, Wembley, Middlesex
'E' Maintenance Unit	Alexandra South Dock, Newport, Monmouthshire
'F' Maintenance Unit	Robinson Garage, Montague Street, Kettering
'H' Maintenance Unit	Heath Hall Works, Dumfries
'R' Maintenance Unit	RAF Glossop
'S' Maintenance Unit	The Ice Stadium, Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
No 1 MT Company	Mowden Hall, Darlington, Durham
No 2 MT Company	King's College, Cambridge
No 3 MT Company	Oakenoast, Sevenoaks Road, Igtham, Kent
No 4 MT Company	20 Langford Place, London NW8
No 5 MT Company	Parkside, Livingstone Drive, Sefton Place, Liverpool 17
No 6 MT Company	107 St Vincents Street, Glasgow C1
No 7 MT Company	82a Pearl Street, Roath, Cardiff
RAF Medical Stores Depot	Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Worcestershire

No 41 (Maintenance) Group

HQ - 81 Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 50 Wing	Geltsdale, Wetheral, Carlisle, Cumberland
No 12 Maintenance Unit	Kirkbride, Carlisle, Cumberland	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 18 Maintenance Unit	Tinwald Downs, Dumfries	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 22 Maintenance Unit	RAF Silloth	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 23 Maintenance Unit	RAF Aldergrove	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 44 Maintenance Unit	Edzell, Brechin, Angus	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 45 Maintenance Unit	RAF Kinloss	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 46 Maintenance Unit	RAF Lossiemouth	Controlled by No 50 Wing
No 51 Wing	Broughton Hall, Broughton, Cheshire
No 9 Maintenance Unit	RAF Cosford	Controlled by No 51 Wing
No 27 Maintenance Unit	RAF Shawbury	Controlled by No 51 Wing
No 29 Maintenance Unit	RAF High Ercall	Controlled by No 51 Wing
No 37 Maintenance Unit	Barrow Hill Lanes, Great Sankey, Warrington (Burtonwood)	Controlled by No 51 Wing
No 48 Maintenance Unit	RAF Hawarden	Controlled by No 51 Wing
No 51 Maintenance Unit	RAF Lichfield	Controlled by No 51 Wing
No 52 Wing	Dowdeswell Court, Dowdeswell, Cheltenham
No 5 Maintenance Unit	RAF Kemble	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 6 Maintenance Unit	RAF Brize Norton	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 8 Maintenance Unit	RAF Little Rissington	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 10 Maintenance Unit	RAF Hullavington	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 15 Maintenance Unit	Wroughton, nr Swindon, Wiltshire	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 19 Maintenance Unit	RAF St Athan	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 20 Maintenance Unit	RAF Aston Down	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 33 Maintenance Unit	RAF Lyneham	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 38 Maintenance Unit	RAF Llandow	Controlled by No 52 Wing
No 39 Maintenance Unit	RAF Colerne	Controlled by No 52 Wing
HQ ATA Ferry Pools	White Waltham, Maidenhaed, Berkshire
HQ Northern Area ATA	RAF Prestwick
Central Ferry Control	81Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire
No 1 Ferry Pilots Pool	BOAC, ATA, White Waltham Aerodrome, Maidenhaed, Berkshire
No 2 Ferry Pilots Pool	Whitchurch, nr Bristol, Somerset
No 3 Ferry Pilots Pool	RAF Hawarden
No 4 Ferry Pilots Pool	RAF Prestwick
No 5 Ferry Pilots Pool	Municipal Aerodrome, Luton, Bedfordshire
No 6 Ferry Pilots Pool	Ratcliffe, nr Leicester
No 7 Ferry Pilots Pool	Sherburn-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire
No 8 Ferry Pilots Pool	Belfast
No 12 Ferry Pilots Pool	RAF Cosford
No 14 Ferry Pilots Pool	RAF Ringway
No 15 Ferry Pilots Pool	Air Service Training Ltd Hamble, Hampshire
No 16 Ferry Pilots Pool	Kirkbride, Carlisle, Cumberland

No 42 (Maintenance) Group

HQ - Burghfield Common, Nr Reading, Surrey

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
No 2 Maintenance Unit	Broadheath, Altrincham, Cheshire
No 2 Maintenance Unit Sub-Unit	Hayfield Mills, Bredbury, Stockport
No 11 Maintenance Unit	Chilmark, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Ordnance Depot RAF	Ridge/Eastlays, Corsham, Wiltshire
No 21 Maintenance Unit	Fauld, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
No 28 Maintenance Unit	Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire
No 31 Maintenance Unit	Llanberis, nr Carnarvon, North Wales
No 31 Maintenance Unit Sub-Unit	Grange Quarry, Holywell, Flintshire
No 36 Maintenance Unit	Snodland, Kent
No 53 Maintenance Unit	Pulham, Norfolk
No 59 Maintenance Unit	Newland, nr Coleford, Gloucestershire
No 64 Maintenance Unit	Ruislip, Middlesex
No 77 Maintenance Unit	Redcastle, Killearnan, Ross-shire
No 80 Maintenance Unit	Escrick, West Yorkshire
No 81 Maintenance Unit	Bowes Moor, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham
No 91 Maintenance Unit	Southburn, nr Driffield, East Yorkshire
No 92 Maintenance Unit	Brafferton, Helperby, North Yorkshire
No 93 Maintenance Unit	Norton Disney, Lincolnshire
No 94 Maintenance Unit	Barnham, Thetford, Norfolk
No 95 Maintenance Unit	Lords Bridge, Cambridge
No 96 Maintenance Unit	Eynsham, Oxfordshire
No 98 Maintenance Unit	Mawcarse, nr Milnathort, Kinross
No 100 Maintenance Unit	South Witham, nr Grantham, Lincolnshire
No 219 Maintenance Unit	Gisburn, Clitheroe, West Yorkshire
No 220 Maintenance Unit	Wortley, nr Sheffield, West Yorkshire

No 43 (Maintenance) Group

HQ - Magdalen College, Oxford

 

Unit	Location/Address	Notes
RAF Station Henlow	Henlow, Bedfordshire
RAF Station Sealand	Sealand, Queen's Ferry, Chester.
No 1 Maintenance Unit	Kidbrooke, London SE3
No 4 Maintenance Unit	Ruislip, Middlesex
No 13 Maintenance Unit	RAF Henlow
No 24 Maintenance Unit	RAF Ternhill
No 26 Maintenance Unit	RAF Cardington
No 30 Maintenance Unit	RAF Sealand
No 32 Maintenance Unit	RAF St Athan
No 34 Maintenance Unit	The Aerodrome, Monkmoor Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
No 49 Maintenance Unit	Faygate, nr Horsham, Sussex
No 50 Maintenance Unit	Morris Motors Ltd, Cowley, Oxford
No 54 Maintenance Unit	Newmarket Road, Cambridge
No 56 Maintenance Unit	Strothers Lane, Inverness
No 58 Maintenance Unit	Lincoln Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire
No 60 Maintenance Unit	Shipton-by-Beningborough, North Yorkshire
No 63 Maintenance Unit	Carluke, Lanarkshire
No 65 Maintenance Unit	Blaby Wharf, Blaby, nr Leicester
No 67 Maintenance Unit	Marshalsea Garage, Wellington Road, Taunton, Somerset
No 71 Maintenance Unit	The Premier Garage, Bath Road, Slough
No 75 Maintenance Unit	Wilmslow, Manchester
No 78 Maintenance Unit	Pencoed Tinplate Works, Bynea, Llanelly, South Wales
No 83 Maintenance Unit	The Airport, Woolsington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
No 84 Maintenance Unit	RAF Calshot
No 85 Maintenance Unit	RAF Felixstowe
No 86 Maintenance Unit	Combe Bank Market Garden, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent
No 88 Maintenance Unit	Meikle Ferry, Tain, Ross-shire
No 90 Maintenance Unit	Smith's Garage, Wylye nr Warminster, Wiltshire
No 213 Maintenance Unit	MacAllister's Yard, Sand Point, Dumbarton.
No 218 Maintenance Unit	RAF Colerne

Source - July 1942 Confidential Air Force List

County names used are those in use at the time

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