Station Commanders
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus Walker GCB 1951-4
- Air Commodore David Strong CB 1957-9
- Air Vice-Marshal Michael Le Bas CB CBE 1959-61
- Air Vice-Marshal Frank Dodd CBE DFC 1961-3
- Air Chief Marshal Sir John Rogers KCB CBE 1967-9
- Group Captain David Blucke -1974 (killed in mid-air accident over Norfolk, and the son of Air Vice-Marshal Robert Blucke who was known for the 1935 Daventry Experiment)
- Air Vice-Marshal Dennis Allison CB 1974-6
- Air Vice-Marshal Derek Bryant CB OBE 1976-8
- Group Captain Christopher Sprent 1978-80
- Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten CBE CB 1980-2
- Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville CB 1986-8
- Air Marshal Clifford Spink CB CBE 1990-3
- Air Vice-Marshal Peter Ruddock CBE 1999-2000
The following Station Commanders are listed in the rank held at the time of appointment:
List incomplete
- Group Captain R Judson - 2004-2006
- Group Captain S D Atha DSO - 2006-2008
- Group Captain J J Hitchcock - 2008-2010
- Group Captain Martin Sampson - 2010-
On 9 August 1974, the station commander 42 year old Group Captain David Blucke, and his navigator Flight Lieutenant Terence Kirkland (aged 28 and from Londonderry), were killed whilst piloting the Phantom XV493 of 41 Sqn. At low-level it hit a Piper Pawnee crop-spraying plane (from Southend-on-Sea) over Fordham, Norfolk, near Downham Market.
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