RAF Transport Command was a Royal Air Force command that controlled all transport aircraft of the RAF. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming...

RAF Ferry Command was the secretive Royal Air Force command formed on 20 July 1941 to ferry urgently needed aircraft from their place of manufacture in...

RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...

RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served...

Personnel and Training Command to form the single Air Command. It latterly consisted of two formations – No. 1 Group RAF and No. 2 Group RAF. The last Commander-in-Chief...

War RAF Abingdon became part of RAF Transport Command, and also became the home of No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF which is now stationed at RAF Brize...

Coastal Command, Transport Command and Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force. RAF Talbenny opened as a No. 19 Group RAF, RAF Coastal Command station...

the community of Solva. It opened in the late summer of 1943, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was put into a care and maintenance status in November...

Flying Corps. Transport Command was renamed Air Support Command on 1 August 1967. With the contraction of the RAF, Air Support Command only lasted a short...

change of emphasis of the Command from solely transporting materials and manpower around the world to providing general support to RAF operations around the...

Ministry. RAF Honington was then used by RAF Transport Command. The station provided support the Berlin Airlift and was transferred to RAF Bomber Command in...

2 Group, RAF Bomber Command. The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 saw the two squadrons transfer to 6 Group and move to RAF Bicester...

part of RAF Transport Command. It was disbanded on 31 January 1951, but re-formed on 1 January 1960, became part of RAF Air Support Command in 1967 and...

airport was named RAF Croydon as its role changed to that of a fighter airfield during the Battle of Britain; and in 1943 RAF Transport Command was founded...

flying. Transport Command In August 1944 the station came under the command of RAF Transport Command with Douglas Dakotas of No. 109 (Transport) Operational...

Force (RAF). Barely a dozen aircraft were built as bombers. The type was used by RAF Transport Command as a transport, and by RAF Coastal Command as an...

the Second World War, mostly part of RAF Bomber Command, but ending its days in RAF Transport Command. No. 4 Group was originally formed in October 1918...

a transport derivative of the famed Avro Lancaster bomber. RAF Transport Command operated the Hastings as the RAF's standard long-range transport; as...

unit in RAF Coastal Command; and from June 1945 as a transport unit in RAF Transport Command. 304 Squadron was created on 23 August 1940 at RAF Bramcote...

THIS AIRFIELD IN 1944-5 DOUGLAS DAKOTAS FROM 48 AND 271 SQUADRONS RAF TRANSPORT COMMAND CARRIED THE 1ST AND 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISIONS UNITS OF THE AIR DESPATCH...

in the photographic reconnaissance role. Benson operated under RAF Transport Command throughout the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1970s, various communications...

RAF (Senior Air Staff Officer) RAF Transport Command. Commando was the second of 139 VLR (Very Long Range) Liberator II aircraft delivered to the RAF...

station was renamed to RAF Blackbushe on 18 November 1944 and it became an airfield for the Douglas Dakotas of RAF Transport Command during the 1948 airlift...

Consolidated Liberators and Douglas Dakotas from RAF Transport Command flew from RAF Waterbeach. RAF Fighter Command took over the base on 1 March 1950 and used...

RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...

airspace in support of bomber operations. On 25 March, RAF Ferry Command became RAF Transport Command and thereafter used Northolt as a London base for the...

numbers than when the 441st TCG was in residence. No. 238 Squadron of RAF Transport Command re-formed there with the type during the winter of 1944–45 and,...

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...

and that Brize Norton would be returned to the RAF. With RAF Lyneham, the home of RAF Transport Command's Bristol Britannia and De Havilland Comet fleets...

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Transport Command from 1955 to 1959. McKee joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1927. He served in pilot roles in...