RAF West Raynham - Units

Units

Units based at RAF West Raynham included:

Dates Squadron Aircraft Notes
9 May 1939 – 6 July 1941 101 Sqn Bristol Blenheim Part of 2 Group
10 May - 13 August 1939, 27 August 3 September 1939, 11 - 14 September 1939 90 Sqn Blenheim Training unit
Oct 1939 - March 1941 No 2 Group Target Towing Flight
30 April - 20 May 1940 76 Sqn Part of 6 Group
30 May - 10 June 1940 139 Sqn Blenheim
12 June - 9 September 1940 18 Sqn Blenheim
15 May - 28 June 1941 90 Sqn Boeing B-17 Fortress I
20–21 June 1941 268 Sqn Curtiss Tomahawk
Lysander		 Tactical reconnaissance unit.
19 July - 15 November 1941 No 1420 Flight
19 July 1941 – 13 November 1942 114 Sqn Blenheim IV and V Part of 2 Group
11 September - 19 October 1942 180 Sqn North American Mitchell II
12 September - 15 October 1942 98 Sqn North American Mitchell II Part of 2 Group
1 April - 15 May 1943 342 Sqn Douglas Boston III Part of 2 Group
1943 - July 1944 2755 Sqn RAF Regiment Light anti-aircraft unit
3 December 1943 – 18 January 1944 HQ, 100 Group No. 100 Group pioneered the use of offensive Electronic Warfare.
4 December 1943 – 3 July 1945 141 Sqn de Havilland Mosquito Night Intruder operations in support of bombers, part of 100 Group
10 December 1943 – 1 July 1945 239 Sqn de Havilland Mosquito Night Intruder operations in support of bombers, part of 100 Group
25 January - 9 February 1944 No 100 Group Communications Flight
24 January - 21 May 1944 No. 1694 Flt
1 October 1945 – 5 October 1962 Central Fighter Establishment Gloster Meteor F8
de Havilland Vampire
de Havilland Venom
Gloster Javelin
Hawker Hunter
  • Day Fighter Leaders School (1 October 1945 – 15 March 1958)
  • All-Weather Wing (3 July 1950 - February 1956)
  • All-Weather Development Sqn (February 1956 - August 1959)
  • All-Weather Fighter Leaders School (July 1950 - 15 March 1958)
  • All-Weather Fighter Combat School (15 March 1958 – 1 July 1962)
  • Day Fighter Combat School (15 March 1958 – 13 November 1962)
20 May 1950 – 1 December 1952 Fighter Command Instrument Training Flt/Sqn
9 September 1960 – 31 March 1963 85 Sqn Gloster Javelin Mk 8 Part of Fighter Command
1 - 25 April 1963 85 Sqn Gloster Meteor Squadron reformed through renaming the Target Facilities Squadron at West Raynham
13 August 1963 – 18 July 1969 1 Sqn Hawker Hunter FGA9 Part of 38 Group
14 August 1963 – 1 September 1969 54 Sqn Hawker Hunter FGA9 Part of 38 Group
15 October 1964 – 30 November 1965 Kestrel Evaluation Sqn Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel The tripartite training and evaluation unit for the forerunner to the Hawker-Siddeley Harrier "Jump Jet".
1 September 1965 – 31 July 1970 41 Sqn Bristol Bloodhound (missile) defence against Soviet bombers
1 February 1966 – 30 June 1967 Fighter Command Trials Unit
1 September 1969 – 13 March 1970 "UK Echelon", 4 Sqn
6 October 1971 – 18 December 1975 Bloodhound Support Unit
1 February 1972 – 5 January 1976 100 Sqn English Electric Canberra Target-towing and specialist electronic warfare training unit
1 August - 29 September 1972 45 Sqn Hawker Hunter Ground-attack unit
1 July 1983 - January 1991 HQ 6 Wing RAF Regiment Rapier missile Short Range Air Defence Missile Unit
19 December 1975 – 1 July 1991 85 Sqn Bloodhound missile Medium-range surface to air missile

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