RAF Maintenance Command was the Royal Air Force command which was responsible for controlling maintenance for all the United Kingdom-based units from formation on 1 April 1938 until being renamed RAF Support Command on 31 August 1973.
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point: No. 15 Maintenance Unit RAF No. 41 Group Test Pilots Pool No. 76 Maintenance Unit RAF No. 88 Gliding School RAFMaintenanceCommand Jet Training...
warehousemen. RAF Carlisle was just one in a chain of several Maintenance Units forming RAF Support Command, later to become RAF Logistics Command in 1994....
scale. On 1 June 1945 the station was handed over to No. 40 Group, RAFMaintenanceCommand. The site was originally partially wooded and some of this remained...
org. "Account of RAF Aircraft Engineer Joe Bosher (serving from late 1956 with No. 58 Aircraft Maintenance Unit RAF) stationed at RAF Sutton Bridge". Archived...
left, Wendling RAF was returned to the Air Ministry and transferred to RAFMaintenanceCommand and was used by No. 258 Maintenance Unit RAF as a stand-by...
renaming of RAFMaintenanceCommand, with No. 90 (Signals) Group being added to it. Its responsibilities included all logistical and maintenance support requirements...
Group RAF and RAFMaintenanceCommand. As a result of a serious shortage of funds during the inter-war period and a weakness of policy, the RAF was singularly...
USAAF to RAFMaintenanceCommand on 10 July 1945. The airfield was used as an ordnance store until being placed under care and maintenance on 30 October...
for RAF Bomber Command, before being used by RAFMaintenanceCommand from 1944 until 1957. The airfield was originally opened as a satellite of RAF Church...
operated out of RAF Rhoose until August 1944. It was then placed into care and maintenance until transferred to RAFMaintenanceCommand in November 1944...
100th Air Refueling Wing (100 ARW). During the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command used the station for operational combat missions until 1945. Placed...
for No. 23 Maintenance Unit at RAF Aldergrove, Langford Lodge was selected in October 1941 to be developed as an air deport for the maintenance and repair...
Force (RAF) structure was as follows: The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) was an air chief marshal (ACM), who was the professional head in command the Royal...
by RAF Coastal Command. The airfield is also known as Silloth Airfield/Aerodrome. The airfield was originally designed to be used by RAFMaintenance Command...
Squadron RAF, which moved from RAF West Malling, and No. 157 Squadron RAF from RAF Valley; these were under the command of No. 100 Group RAF and flew...
Training Unit RAF - 1940 to 1943. The OTU was based at nearby RAF Silloth, but routinely used Kirkbride for training flights. No. 12 Maintenance Unit (41 Maintenance...
care and maintenance during 1947 when the RAF Regiment relocated to RAF Catterick. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the RAF Bomber Command used Folkingham...
it was used as Gliding School until 1946. It was then used by RAFMaintenanceCommand until its closure in June 1955. From September 1939 – March 1941...
was mostly complete by 1940. The airbase was initially run by RAFMaintenanceCommand and civilians from the Ministry of Aircraft Production also worked...
inactivated. After the war, the field was used as the sub-site of No. 94 Maintenance Unit RAF being used as an ammunition storage depot. It was reduced to inactive...
Flying Unit RAF (September 1944) Satellite of No. 44 Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) (August 1945 - ?) Satellite of No. 56 Operational Training Unit RAF (March 1942...
transferred to No. 100 Group RAF. Flying operations ceased at the end of July 1945, after which it was taken over by RAFMaintenanceCommand which used it to store...
in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...
the RAF Chinese Language School. Opened – 9 August 1939 (as No. 11 Balloon Centre) RAF Balloon Command (9 August 1939 – 22 April 1945) RAFMaintenance Command...
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