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This is a list of military communications ('Signals') units and formations of the Royal Air Force.

In the Royal Air Force sense, wings, groups, and commands can be considered formations. A formation is defined by the US Department of Defense as "two or more aircraft, ships, or units proceeding together under a commander".[1] "Formations are those military organisations which are formed from different speciality Arms and Services troop units to create a balanced, combined combat force."[2]

Higher level communications formations in the Royal Air Force included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established in the 1940s. No. 26 Group was reformed on 12 February 1940 within RAF Training Command, and transferred to RAF Technical Training Command on 27 May 1940. It was transferred to RAF Bomber Command on 10 February 1942, and then amalgamated with No. 60 (Signals) Group to form No. 90 (Signals) Group RAF on 25 April 1946.

The Radio Warfare Establishment (RWE) was established 21 July 1945 at RAF Swanton Morley, and later became the Central Signals Establishment (CSE). The CSE was formed 1 September 1946 at RAF Watton, equipped with Dominie and Tiger Moth, and disbanded there on 1 July 1965.[3] When the establishment disbanded, the Research Wing and civilian parts of the "..Installation Squadron became the RAF Signals Command Air Radio Laboratories, and the training and service elements of Installation Squadron became the EW Support Wing."[4] Many files regarding the CSE are accessible in the National Archives at Kew [1].

Radio units and formations

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Radio Establishment

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Name Formed Location Aircraft Disbanded at Disbanded Unit became
Radio Warfare Establishment 21 July 1945 Swanton Morley Fortress
Halifax		 Watton 1 September 1946 Central Signals Establishment[5]

Radio Schools

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Name Formed Location Aircraft Disbanded at Disbanded Unit became
1 Radio School 10 March 1941 Cranwell Botha
Proctor		 [6] Active, at RAF Cosford and RAF Digby.
2 Radio School 18 January 1940 Yatesbury Tiger Moth
Botha		 Yatesbury 31 October 1965 Disbanded[5]
3 Radio School 27 December 1940 Prestwick Audax
Blenheim		 Compton Basset 30 November 1964 Disbanded[5]
4 Radio School 1 January 1943 Madley Dominie
Proctor		 Swanton Morley 1 May 1951 No. 1 Air Signallers School RAF[5]
6 Radio School 1 January 1943 Bolton Blenheim
Tiger Moth		 Cranwell 1 December 1952 Absorbed by 1 Radio School[5]
10 Radio School 1 January 1943 Carew Cheriton Anson
Oxford		 Carew Cheriton 24 November 1945 Disbanded[5]
11 Radio School 11 December 1942 Hooton Park Botha
Anson		 Hooton Park 31 August 1944 Disbanded[5]
12 Radio School 17 July 1943 St Athan Proctor
Anson		 St Athan 7 March 1946 Empire Radio School[5]
14 Radio School 1 June 1944 St Athan Proctor
Anson		 Debden 7 March 1946 Empire Radio School[5]
3 Radio Direction Finding School 19 August 1942 Prestwick Hart
Botha		 Hooton Park 13 December 1942 11 Radio School[6]
Empire Radio School 7 March 1946 Debden Tiger Moth
Proctor		 Debden 20 October 1949 Royal Air Force Technical College, Signals Division[7]

Radio Flights

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Name Formed Location Aircraft Disbanded at Disbanded Unit became
Radio Development Flight December 1942 Drem Defiant
Beaufighter		 Drem 1 June 1943 1692 (Special Duties) Flight[6]
1 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Wick Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 1 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
2 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Dyce Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 2 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
3 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Usworth Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 3 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
4 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Church Fenton Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 4 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
5 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Duxford Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 5 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
6 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Biggin Hill Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 6 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
7 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 15 July 1940 Filton Hornet Moth N/A 16 October 1940 7 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
8 Radio Maintenance Unit Calibration Flight 1 July 1940 Speke Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 N/A 16 October 1940 8 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight[6]
1 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Longman 16 February 1941 70 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
2 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Dyce 16 February 1941 71 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
3 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Usworth 16 February 1941 72 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
4 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Church Fenton 16 February 1941 73 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
5 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Duxford 16 February 1941 74 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
6 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Biggin Hill 16 February 1941 75 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
7 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth Filton 16 February 1941 76 Wing Calibration Flight[6]
8 Radio Servicing Section Calibration Flight 16 October 1940 N/A Hornet Moth
Blenheim		 Speke 16 February 1941 77 Wing Calibration Flight[6]

Signals units and formations

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Wings

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Name Formed Location Disbanded at Disbanded Notes
No. 33 Wing RAF 7 December 1944 Malines, Belgium 30 May 1945 [8]
No. 69 Wing RAF 15 March 1945 Everberg 20 October 1945 [9]
No. 70 Wing RAF 1 July 1940 Wick 31 May 1946 [9]
No. 71 Wing RAF 31 July 1940 Dyce July 1943 [9]
No. 72 Wing RAF 1 July 1940 Usworth 31 July 1946 [9]
No. 73 Wing RAF 1 July 1940 Church Fenton 1 November 1946 [9]
No. 74 Wing RAF 1 July 1940 Duxford 1 July 1943 [9]
No. 75 Wing RAF 1 July 1940 Biggin Hill 1 November 1946 [9]
No. 76 Wing RAF 10 July 1940 Filton 1 July 1941 [9]
No. 77 Wing RAF 17 February 1941 Liverpool 15 March 1944 [9]
No. 78 Wing RAF 25 April 1941 Henbury 31 July 1946 [9]
No. 79 Wing RAF 27 September 1941 Portadown July 1943 [9]
No. 80 Wing RAF 7 September 1940 Radlett 24 September 1945 [9]
No. 81 Wing RAF 2 June 1941 Worcester 30 April 1946 [9]
No. 84 Wing RAF June 1943 Bartway September 1944 [9]
No. 164 Wing RAF 4 May 1942 Newbold Revel, India 30 April 1945 [10]
No. 180 Wing RAF 9 June 1943 Calcutta, India 30 December 1945 [11]
No. 181 Wing RAF 9 June 1943 Masinpur, India 10 March 1946 [11]
No. 182 Wing RAF 1 August 1943 Chittagong, India 1 August 1945 [11]
No. 183 Wing RAF 1 January 1944 Ridgeway, Ceylon 30 December 1945 [11]
No. 250 Wing RAF 25 August 1939 Ismailia, Egypt 6 December 1942 [11]
No. 276 Wing RAF 1 August 1942 Heliopolis 31 August 1945 [12]
No. 296 Wing RAF 17 February 1942 Freetown, West Africa 30 April 1943 [12]
No. 329 Wing RAF July 1943 Algiers 23 November 1943 [12]

Squadrons

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Name Formed Location Aircraft Disbanded at Disbanded Unit became
Signals Command Development Squadron N/A Watton Lincoln
Hastings		 Watton 1 January 1962 No. 151 Squadron RAF[13]
Signals Squadron 4 January 1942 Kabrit Wellington Kabrit 1 March 1942 No. 162 Squadron RAF[13]

Units

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Name Formed Location Disbanded at Disbanded Notes
No. 1 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Bampton Castle? 1994[14] Unknown Unknown RAF Rudloe Manor 1995[15]
No. 2 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Stanbridge Unknown Unknown RAF Bampton Castle 1995[15]
No. 6 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown RAF Rudloe Manor 14 October 1994[15]
No. 7 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Byron Heights, West Falkland[16] Unknown Unknown With British Forces South Atlantic Islands. Previously Kormakiti, Cyprus, from at least 1956 Sept-1959 Feb.[17]
No. 9 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Boddington Unknown Unknown RAF Boddington 1995[15] RAF Boddington became No. 9 Signals Unit on 1 October 1978. Now ISS Boddington.
No. 11 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Rheindahlen Unknown Unknown RAF Rheindahlen, Monchengladbach 1975–1980;[18] still at Rheindahlen 1989[19]
No. 12 Signals Unit RAF 1 June 1969[20] RAF Episkopi? Unknown 1 July 2002[20] RAF Episkopi 1995[15]
No. 26 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Gatow, 1989[21] RAF Gatow 30 November 1994[15] No. 5 (Signals) Wing RAF, RAF Hambuhren 23 Feb 1953 - 30 Jul 1955[22] and RAF Butzweilerhof 12 August 1958 - September 1966,[23] was redesignated No. 26 Signals Unit at RAF Butzweilerhof some time in the 1961-66 time period.[24] RAF Gatow was closed in 1994.
No. 33 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Ayios Nikolaos 1995[15]
No. 50 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 54 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Digby, present Taunton Barracks, Celle, Bergen-Hohne Garrison, 1989.[25] Reformed at RAF Digby in 2014 as part of No. 1 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing RAF in the electronic warfare role.
No. 59 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 71 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Benbecula, 1994[14] Unknown Unknown
No. 75 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Present at RAF Boulmer on 1 October 1994.[14]
No. 81 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Bampton Castle, 1994[14] Unknown Unknown RAF Bampton Castle 1995[15]
No. 86 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Neatishead 1995[26]
No. 90 Signals Unit RAF 26 April 1946 RAF Medmenham, 1946

RAF Leeming, present

No. 90 Signals Unit was reformed on 1 April 2006 at RAF Leeming.[27]
No. 91 Signals Unit RAF 27 September 1957[28] RAF Saxa Vord RAF Saxa Vord September 1984 No. 91 Signals Unit officially formed up at Saxa Vord in September 1957, was declared operational on 5 October 1957, and in 1960 was visited by Queen Elizabeth II.[28]
No. 101 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 112 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown 1983
No. 117 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Tai-Mo-Shan Hong Kong Unknown
No. 123 Signals Unit RAF Unknown HMS Jufair Bahrain Unknown
No. 129 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Staxton Wold 1995[26]
No. 140 Signals Unit RAF April 1961 RAF Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown Formed from No. 1 (Signals) Wing RAF to control Gee (navigation) and Decca Navigator System chains
No. 144 Signals Unit RAF 1951 RAF Bawdsey, 1953-1958

RAF Boulmer, present

144 SU was formed in 1951 at RAF Bawdsey (1953-1958), 144 SU has also been stationed at RAF Wattisham and finally at RAF Ty Croes between 1991 and 1995.[29]

Reformed November 2023 at RAF Boulmer.[29]

No. 146 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Staxton Wold 1995[26]
No. 170 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Buchan 1995[26]
No. 235 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 244 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 259 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Amalgamated with No. 330 SU and No. 953 SU as No. 330 SU May 1958-September 1961 as part of Gee (navigation) chain.
No. 264 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 266 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown
No. 271 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 276 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Habbaniya, Iraq Unknown Unknown Ran large SIGINT monitoring station for GCHQ.[30]
No. 280 Signals Unit RAF 25 June 1956 Akrotiri Troodos 31 March 1994 Subsumed into Joint Services Signals Unit[31]
No. 284 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown
No. 291 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Hambuhren Unknown Unknown RAF Hambuhren 23 Feb 1953-30 Jul 1955.[22]
No. 303 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Mount Kent, Falkland Islands, 1995.[26] The hilltop of Mount Kent is occupied by the RRH Mount Kent (Remote Radar Head Mount Kent) of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI),[32] part of an early warning and airspace control network including also RRH Mount Alice and RRH Byron Heights on West Falkland.
No. 330 Signals Unit RAF May 1958 - Sep 1961 Ingolstadt Unknown Unknown Amalgamation of No. 259 SU, No. 330 SU, and No. 953 SU in Ingolstadt May 1958 as part of Gee (navigation) chain.
No. 336 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 367 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Little Sai Wan 367 and 368 Signals Units merged in 1946, and all personnel were at Little Sai Wan by 1953.[33] Little Sai Wan was a signals intelligence station in the Siu Sai Wan area of Hong Kong. It was established by the RAF as base for 367 Signals Unit in the early 1950s.[34] In 1964, following a review by Sir Gerald Templer, control of the site passed to Government Communications Headquarters.[35]
No. 388 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 399 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown RAF Digby 1 September 1998 No. 399 Signals Unit arrived at RAF Digby in January 1955 and declared itself fully operational on 15 February, located in No. 2 hangar (now the station gymnasium). Active in 1983.[36] On 1 September 1998 the Unit merged with the newly arrived Special Signals Support Unit from Loughborough to form the Joint Service Signal Unit (Digby).[37]
No. 405 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Portreath 1995[26]
No. 409 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 425 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 432 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Neatishead 1995[26]
No. 444 Signals Unit RAF 16 August 1971 Stanley Fort Hong Kong 31 December 1977 444 Signals Unit (SU) formed within 90 Group, Strike Command, with effect from 16 August 1971, and was established as a lodger unit at Stanley Fort, Hong Kong. The primary role of 444 SU was to act as a ground station for the Skynet (satellite) communications system. Disbanded and closed 31 December 1977.
No. 469 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 477 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown Active at RAF Butzweilerhof, West Germany, for at least the period January 1956 - July 1958.[38] Formed 31 January 1954-12 August 1958 from elements of HQ No. 5 (Signals) Wing RAF, absorbing most of No. 755 SU RAF Hambuhren 15 November 1957.[22] No. 5 (Signals) Wing RAF was the commanding unit for HF/direction finding units in Germany from August 1958 to September 1966[39][40]
No. 487 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Buchan 1995[26]
No. 500 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown RAF Boulmer 1995[26]
No. 585 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 588 Signals Unit RAF November 1956 RAF Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown Security monitoring of VHF.
No. 591 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Arrived at RAF Digby in July 1955 and set up in Hangar No. 1 (North).[41]
No. 615 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 646 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 719 Signals Unit RAF 1 April 1953 RAF Habbaniya, Iraq Unknown Unknown [2], see also Lee, Flight from the Middle East.
No. 721 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 724 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 751 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Mount Alice (Falkland Islands)[16] Unknown Unknown Located at Cape Greco, Cyprus, January 1956 - December 1959, as a mobile radar unit.[42] Moved from RAF Ayios Nikolaos after March 1956.
No. 755 Signals Unit RAF 30 Jul 1955 - 15 Nov 1957[22] RAF Hambuhren Unknown Unknown Mostly absorbed by No. 477 SU RAF Butzweilerhof 15 November 1957.[22]
No. 815 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 840 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Siggiewi, Malta Unknown Unknown RAF Siggiewi, Malta, 1976-70[43] RAF Lindholme 1994 (March 1994) seemingly closed 1996.
No. 889 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 926 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 953 Signals Unit RAF Unknown RAF Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown No. 5 (Signals) Wing RAF, RAF Second Tactical Air Force. Amalgamated with No. 330 SU and No. 259 SU as No. 330 SU May 1958-September 1961 in Ingolstadt as part of Gee (navigation) chain.
No. 962 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 966 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 993 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
No. 1001 Signals Unit RAF Unknown Unknown RAF Oakhanger Unknown Operating Skynet satellites for military communications.[44]
Signals Development Unit RAF 15 April 1943 Hinton-in-the-Hedges Henlow 1 January 1950 Equipped with Whitley, Wellington. Became Radio Engineering Unit RAF[13]
Signals Flying Unit RAF 20 July 1944 Honiley Honiley 1 September 1946 Equipped with Oxford and Vickers Wellington. Became part of Central Signals Establishment[13]

Schools

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Name Formed Location Aircraft Disbanded at Disbanded Unit became
1 Signals School 26 August 1940 Cranwell Valentia
Wallace		 Cranwell 1 January 1943 1 Radio School[13]
2 Signals School 26 August 1940 Yatesbury Dragon Rapide
Dominie		 Yatesbury 1 January 1943 2 Radio School[13]
3 Signals School 26 August 1940 Compton Bassett N/A Compton Bassett 1 January 1943 3 Radio School[13]
3 Signals School (India) 19 August 1943 Hakimpet Blenheim Hakimpet 14 May 1944 Absorbed by 10 School of Air Force Technical Training, Hakimpet[13]
4 Signals School 27 August 1941 Madley Dominie
Proctor		 Madley 1 January 1943 4 Radio School[13]

Calibration units and formations

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Name Formed Location Aircraft Disbanded at Disbanded Unit became
No. 1 Calibration Flight RAF 6 November 1942 Speke Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Speke May 1943 Disbanded[45]
No. 1 Calibration Flight, India RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Dum-Dum 29 September 1942 No. 224 Group Calibration Flight RAF[46]
No. 2 Calibration Flight, India RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Ratmalana, Ceylon 29 September 1942 No. 222 Group Calibration Flight RAF[46]
No. 3 Calibration Flight, India RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Juhu 29 September 1942 No. 225 Group Calibration Flight RAF[46]
No. 4 Calibration Flight, India RAF Unknown Unknown Unknown Jakkur 29 September 1942 No. 225 Group Calibration Flight RAF[46]
No. 222 Group Calibration Flight RAF 29 September 1942 Ratmalana, Ceylon Vengeance I Ratmalana, Ceylon July 1943 No. 1579 (Calibration) Flight RAF[46]
No. 224 Group Calibration Flight RAF 29 September 1942 Dum-Dum Sentinel I Armada Road, India 15 March 1943 Bengal Calibration Flight RAF[46]
No. 225 Group Calibration Flight RAF 29 September 1942 Juhu & Jakkur Unknown Jakkur 13 September 1943 No. 1580 (Calibration) Flight RAF[46]
No. 1447 (Radar Calibration) Flight RAF 19 March 1942 Hooton Park Battle
Lysander III		 Carew Cheriton 15 December 1942 Absorbed by No. 4 Radio Direction Finding School RAF[47]
No. 1448 (Radar Calibration) Flight RAF 17 February 1942 Duxford Hornet Moth
Rota II		 Halton 15 June 1943 No. 529 Squadron RAF[47]
No. 1578 (Calibration) Flight RAF 25 September 1943 Blida, Algeria Blenheim V
Baltimore IIIA		 Reghaia 15 June 1944 Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Forces Communication Flight RAF[48]
No. 1579 (Calibration) Flight RAF July 1943 Ratmalana, Ceylon Blenheim V
Vengeance I		 Ratmalana 10 October 1945 [48]
No. 1580 (Calibration) Flight RAF 13 September 1943 Yelahanka, India Blenheim V
Vengeance I		 Cholavaram, India 10 October 1945 [48]
No. 1581 (Calibration) Flight RAF 25 August 1943 Alipore, India Blenheim V
Vengeance II		 Dalbhumgarh, India 15 November 1945 [48]
No. 1582 (Calibration) Flight RAF 25 August 1943 Kumbhirgram, India Blenheim V
Vengeance I		 Dalbhumgarh, India 15 November 1945 [48]
No. 1583 (Calibration) Flight RAF 28 August 1943 Chittagong, India Blenheim V
Vengeance I		 Trichinopoly, India 15 November 1945 [48]
No. 70 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Longman Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Longman 15 June 1943 No. 526 Squadron RAF[49]
No. 71 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Dyce Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Dyce 15 June 1943 No. 526 Squadron RAF[50]
No. 72 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Usworth Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Usworth 15 June 1943 No. 526 Squadron RAF[50]
No. 73 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Church Fenton Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Unknown 30 October 1942 No. 77 Wing Calibration Flight[50]
No. 74 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Duxford Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Duxford 15 June 1943 No. 527 Squadron RAF[50]
No. 75 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Biggin Hill Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Biggin Hill 15 June 1943 No. 527 Squadron RAF[50]
No. 76 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Filton Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Filton 15 June 1943 Disbanded[50]
No. 77 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 16 February 1941 Speke Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Speke 6 November 1942 No. 1 Calibration Flight RAF[50]
No. 78 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 25 May 1941 Filton Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Harrowbeer 15 June 1943 No. 528 Squadron RAF[50]
No. 79 Wing Calibration Flight RAF October 1941 Long Kesh Blenheim IV
Hornet Moth		 Speke 30 October 1942 No. 77 Wing Calibration Flight RAF[50]
No. 110 Wing Calibration Flight RAF 1 March 1940 Ringway Battle
Leopard Moth		 Filton 5 May 1941 Disbanded[50]
Bangalore Calibration Flight RAF October 1942 Bangalore, India Nil Yelahanka, India 13 September 1943 No. 1580 (Calibration) Flight RAF[51]
Bengal Calibration Flight RAF 15 March 1943 Amarda Road, India Blenheim V
Vengeance I		 Alipore, India 25 August 1943 No. 1583 (Calibration) Flight RAF[52]
Calibration Flight RAF, Seletar 30 June 1941 Seletar, Malaya Vildebeest Seletar February 1942 Destroyed[45]
RDF Calibration Flight RAF, Sebala II June 1942 Sebala II, Tunisia Sebala II 7 August 1943 RDF Calibration Flight RAF, Blida[53]
RDF Calibration Flight RAF, Blida 7 August 1943 Blida, Algeria Blenheim V; Beaufighter II Blida 25 September 1943 No. 1578 (Calibration) Flight RAF[53]
No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Calibration Flight RAF 27 December 1940 Gatwick Wallace II
Lysander I		 Hatfield 17 February 1941 No. 116 Squadron RAF[54]

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