Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| Bomber Command Communication Flight | Booker | Station in Home Command |
HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| RAF Station Bassingbourn | ||
| No 231 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Bassingbourn | Canberra |
| RAF Station Binbrook | ||
| No 9 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
| No 12 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
| No 50/103 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
| No 101 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
| No 617 Sqn | RAF Binbrook | Canberra |
| Bomber Command Acceptance and Modification Unit | RAF Binbrook | |
| No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Finningley | Station in FTC |
| 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 | Canberra |
| No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Canberra |
| No 199 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln/Mosquito |
| No 112 Signals Unit | High Street, Darsham | GH, station in Fighter Command |
| Bomber Command Bombing School | RAF Lindholme | Lincoln B2 |
| RAF Station Scampton | ||
| No 10 Sqn | RAF Scampton | Canberra |
| No 18 Sqn | RAF Scampton | Canberra |
| No 21 Sqn | RAF Scampton | Canberra |
| No 27 Sqn | RAF Scampton | Canberra |
| No 999 Signals Unit | Staxton Wold | GH, station in Fighter Command |
| No 266 Signals Unit | RAF Waddington | |
| No 284 Signals Unit | RAF Waddington | |
| No 330 Signals Unit | RAF Waddington | |
| No 615 Signals Unit | RAF Waddington | |
| No 953 Signals Unit | RAF Waddington | |
| No 459 Signals Unit | RAF Wythall | GH, station in No 90 Group |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
| Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
| RAF Station Brize Norton | Administered by USAF | |
| No 388 Signals Unit | RAF Church Lawford | MRPU, station in Maintenance Command |
| RAF Station Coningsby | ||
| No 15 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| No 40 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| No 57/104 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| No 149 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Canberra |
| Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight | RAF Coningsby | Meteor/Canberra |
| No 53 Signals Unit | RAF Coningsby | MRPU, station in Maintenance Command |
| Joint School of Photographic Interpretation | RNAS Culham | |
| RAF Station Fairford | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Greenham Common | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Lakenheath | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Marham | ||
| No 35 Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
| No 90 Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
| No 115/218 Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
| No 207 Sqn | RAF Marham | Washington B1 |
| RAF Station Mildenhall | Administered by USAF | |
| No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
| RAF Wordwell | Satellite, Mildenhall | |
| RAF Station Molesworth | Administered by USAF | |
| Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) | RAF Nuneham Park | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I)) |
| RAF Station Sculthorpe | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Upper Heyford | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Upwood | ||
| No 7/76 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln |
| No 148 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln |
| No 214 Sqn | RAF Upwood | Lincoln |
| No 230 Operational Conversation Unit | RAF Upwood | Lincoln |
| Chesil Beach Range Unit | Weymouth (Riaipole Lane) | |
| RAF Station Wimpole Park | Administered by USAF | |
| RAF Station Wittering | ||
| No 49/102 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Lincoln |
| No 61/144 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Lincoln |
| No 100 Sqn | RAF Wittering | Lincoln |
| Bomber Command Armament School | RAF Wittering | |
| RAF Station Wyton | ||
| No 58 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Mosquito |
| No 82 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lancaster |
| No 540 Sqn | RAF Wyton | Canberra |
| Radar Reconnaissance Flight | RAF Wyton | Lincoln |
Bomber Command, Inactive Stations
| Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
| Abbots Ripton | Wyton | |
| Barford St John | Upper Heyford | |
| Croughton | Upper Heyford | |
| Deenethorpe | Wittering | |
| Desborough | Wittering | |
| Downham Market | Marham | |
| Fiskerton | Scampton | |
| Glatton | Upwood | |
| Gransden Lodge | Bassingbourn | |
| Grimsby | Binbrook | |
| Kelstern | Binbrook | |
| Kimbolton | Wyton | |
| Mepal | Upwood | |
| Metheringham | Waddington | |
| Middleton Stoney | Upper Heyford | |
| Newmarket | Mildenhall | |
| Polebrook | Upwood | |
| Spilsby | Coningsby | |
| Steeple Morden | Bassingbourn | |
| Sutton Bridge | Marham | |
| Warboys | Upwood | |
| Witchford | Wyton |
Source - SD161 (157th Edition) - October 1953
County names used are those in use at the time
[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]
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