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Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
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[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| Bomber Command Communication Flight | Booker | |
| No 82 Sqn | RAF Eastleigh (East Africa) | Lancaster PR 1/Dakota |
| West African Air Survey Base Party | Takoradi (West Africa) | Lancaster PR 1/Dakota |
HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| RAF Station Binbrook | ||
| No 9 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
| No 12 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
| No 101 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
| No 617 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln B2 |
| RAF Station Coningsby, | ||
| C & M Party | RAF Coningsby | |
| RAF Station Hemswell | ||
| No 83/150 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln B2 |
| No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln B2 |
| No 109/105 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Mosquito B35 |
| No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Mosquito B35 |
| No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Lindholme | Station in TTC |
| RAF Station Scampton | - | - |
| No 230 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Scampton | Various |
| Instrument Rating and Examining Flight | RAF Scampton | |
| RAF Station Waddington | ||
| No 50/103 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
| No 57/104 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 (on attachment to FEAF) |
| No 61/144 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
| No 100 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln B2 |
| No 6 GCA Unit | RAF Waddington |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| RAF Station Benson | Benson, Oxfordshire | |
| No 58 Sqn | RAF Benson | Anson/Mosquito |
| No 540 Sqn | RAF Benson | Mosquito |
| No 541 Sqn | RAF Benson | Spitfire/Harvard |
| RAF Station Nuneham Park | Satellite, Benson | |
| Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) | RAF Nuneham Park | |
| RAF Station Lakenheath | ||
| RAF Station Marham | ||
| Bomber Command B29 Training Sqn | RAF Marham | |
| RAF Station Mildenhall | ||
| No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
| RAF Station Sculthorpe | ||
| RAF Station Upwood | ||
| No 7/76 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2 |
| No 49/102 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2 |
| No 148 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2 |
| No 214 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln B2 |
| RAF Station Wyton | ||
| No 15/21 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
| No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
| No 90 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
| No 138 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lincoln B2 |
| WRAF School of Domestic Subjects | RAF Wyton |
Bomber Command, Inactive Stations
| Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
| Abbots Ripton | Wyton | S |
| Chalgrove | Benson | S |
| Downham Market | Marham | S |
| East Kirkby | Coningsby | R |
| Glatton | Upwood | S |
| Hampsted Norris | Benson | S |
| Kelstern | Binbrook | S |
| Kimbolton | Wyton | S |
| Ludford Magna | Binbrook | S |
| Mepal | Upwood | S |
| Metheringham | Waddington | R |
| Molesworth | Wyton | R |
| Newmarket | Mildenhall | S |
| Polebrook | Upwood | R |
| Spilsby | Coningsby | R |
| Sturgate | Hemswell | R |
| Sutton Bridge | Marham | R |
| Warboys | Upwood | S |
S = Surplus to long-term requirements
R = Retention is currently required
Source - SD161 (117th Edition) - June 1950
County names used are those in use at the time
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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