No. 4 Group RAF (4Gp) was a Royal Air Force group, originally formed in the First World War, and reformed in the wake of the Second World War, mostly...
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on 1 May 1936 as No. 11 (Fighter) Group by renaming Fighting Area. On 14 July 1936, 11 Group became the first RAF Fighter Command Group responsible for...
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No. 22 Group Royal Air Force (22 Gp) is one of six groups currently active in the Royal Air Force (RAF), falling under the responsibility of Deputy Commander-in-Chief...
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No. 1 Group of the Royal Air Force is one of the two operations groups in RAF Air Command. Today, the group is referred to as the Air Combat Group, as...
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No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph...
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Headquarters Air Command at RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. No. 2 Group was originally formed as No. 2 (Training) Group on 1 April 1918 at Oxford....
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No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group was a special duties group within RAF Bomber Command. The group was formed on 11 November 1943 to consolidate the increasingly...
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Linton-on-Ouse opened on 13 May 1937 as a bomber airfield and was the home of No. 4 Group RAF until 1940. The base's first commander was Wing Commander A. D. Pryor...
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No. 46 Group RAF was a group of the Royal Air Force. No. 46 Group was formed on 17 January 1944 within RAF Transport Command. The Headquarters was at The...
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No. 38 Group RAF; No. 44 Group RAF; No. 45 Group RAF; No. 46 Group RAF; No. 216 Group RAF; No. 229 Group RAF; No. 114 Wing RAF, and No. 116 Wing RAF at...
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Heyford on 8 April 1940 from the No. 4 Group RAF Pool, which comprised No 7 and No 76 Squadron, within No. 6 Group RAF, to train night bomber crews, for...
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No. 12 Group RAF (12 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was a group, a military formation, that existed over two separate periods, namely the end of the First...
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No. 3 Group RAF (3 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group first active in 1918, again between 1923 and 1926, then as part of RAF Bomber Command from...
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Yorkshire Air Museum. The station was originally a grass airfield within No. 4 Group RAF. In the early 1940s the airfield was entirely reconstructed with three...
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No. 6 Group RAF. Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson led No. 6 Group from 1924 to 1926. In 1936, No. 1 (Air Defence) Group RAF, a group of auxiliary...
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list of Royal Air Force groups is an overview of all groups, current and former, of the Royal Air Force (RAF). An air force group is a high-level controlling...
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along with ten other RAF airfields, was handed over from the RAF to the Royal Canadian Air Force (No. 4 Group RAF to No. 6 Group RCAF. Operations were...
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No. 13 Group RAF (13 Gp) was a group in the Royal Air Force for various periods in the 20th century. It is most famous for having the responsibility for...
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ISBN 0-7100-9339-X. "No. 4 Group". Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - RAF Home Commands formed...
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on 1 April 1918 in No. 4 Area RAF. It was transferred to North-Eastern Area RAF on 8 May 1918. Disbanded 18 October 1919. The group was reformed on 1 September...
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No. 10 Group RAF (10 Gp) was a former operations group of the Royal Air Force which participated in the Second World War. It was formed on 1 April 1918...
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group controlled: RAF Wahn No. 83 Group Communications Flight No. 68 Squadron RAF - Meteor No. 87 Squadron RAF - Meteor RAF Celle No. 16 Squadron RAF...
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1943 when all controlled units were moved to No. 9 Group. The group was reformed on 1 January 1952 at RAF Watnall, in Nottinghamshire to control all training...
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No. 7 Group RAF (7 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group active in the latter part of the First World War, during the 1920s and also in the Second...
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= No. 3 Radio School RAF RAF Cranwell = No. 1 Radio School RAF & No. 8 Radio School RAF RAF Hooton Park = No. 11 Radio School RAF RAF Madley = No. 4 Radio...
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No. 67 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force group which was active between 1 April 1950 and 1 February 1957. It was formerly RAF Northern Ireland (RAF...
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No. 40 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force Maintenance group that was operational from 1 January 1939, throughout the Second World War and into the Cold...
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became No. 3 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery RAF (May 1918) No. 4 Group Target Towing Flight RAF (February 1940 – November 1941) No. 5 Group Target...
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No. 20 Group RAF (20 Gp) is a former Royal Air Force group which disbanded on 1 August 1943. It initially existed between 1918 and 1919, and then again...
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Snowbirds (aerobatic team) (redirect from No. 431 Squadron RAF)
operational group – No. 6 Group RCAF – and converted to Halifax B.V four-engined heavy bombers. In December 1943 the squadron moved to RAF Croft where it was...
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