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. 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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became 11 Group. 11 Sector became Sector South and No. 12 Sector RAF was absorbed and became Sector North. Group Headquarters shifted to RAF Bentley Priory...
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No. 8 Group RAF (8 Gp) was a Royal Air Force group which existed during the final year of the First World War and during the Second World War. No. 8 Group...
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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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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. 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. 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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No. 9 Group RAF (9 Gp) was a group of the Royal Air Force, which existed over two separate periods, initially at the end of the First World War, and latterly...
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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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No. 14 Group RAF (14 Gp) was the title of several Royal Air Force groups, including a group responsible for anti-submarine activity from 1918 to 1919...
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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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part of the post-Cold War reorganisation of the RAF. It absorbed the forces of No. 11 and No. 18 Groups, which were descended from the old Fighter Command...
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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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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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Ian Townsend (section RAF career)
commanding RAF Marham between 2017 and 2019 and currently serves as the Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group RAF. Townsend was commissioned into the RAF on 30...
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No. 38 Group RAF was a group of the Royal Air Force which disbanded on 31 December 2020. It was formed on 6 November 1943 from the former 38 Wing with...
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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. 50 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force Training group that was operational from 1 February 1939, throughout the Second World War until 31 May 1947...
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Richard Maddison (section RAF career)
was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He was Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group RAF from 2020 to 2023, and then served as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff...
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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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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. 41 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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for operations on 1 February 1941 as a Fighter Sector Station under No. 9 Group RAF with the task of providing defence cover for England's industrial north-west...
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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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No. 60 Group RAF (60 Gp) was a group of the British Royal Air Force. It was established in 1940 with the headquarters in Leighton Buzzard, as part of RAF...
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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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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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